Re:Tungsten: The Perfect Metal for Bullets and Missiles (2014)
by petre on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:26AM
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> Well, I imagine being hit by a tank round has so profoundly disastrous health effects anyway, the metal toxicity doesn't matter much!
It's also toxic for the people firing the rounds because blowing up a cartrigde will also evaporate some trace amount of the bullet.
Re:Tungsten: The Perfect Metal for Bullets and Missiles (2014)
by InclinedPlane on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @07:03PM
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The considerations are hardly bizarre.
People live in warzones. People live in warzones just after they've been warzones. This is even more true in urban warfare. This is why the civilized world tries very hard to avoid using landmines in war, and why there's so much effort into preventing civilian casualties with unexploded munitions like cluster bombs, for example.
There is an argument to be made on whether or not the risk of collateral damage is justified, it's impossible to make war completely "safe", of course, but with DU the evidence is stacking up that the collateral damage is extreme and probably not a good tradeoff.
Well, I imagine being hit by a tank round has so profoundly disastrous health effects anyway, the metal toxicity doesn't matter much!
(Yes, I know you probably meant adverse health effects for the people who wander into the area after the crew is killed, much like it happens with nukes, but still. The considerations are bizarre, like the article said)