Re: More Anti-Nuke Media Coverage....

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 12:39 PM 11/7/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Despite the heavy public relations efforts promoting the so called
>'smart weapons', it was Depleted Uranium (DU) Penetrators that were the
>'stars' of Desert Storm.  These weapons have been described by top
>Pentagon officials as the most significant development in battlefield
>weaponry since the machine gun.

Perhaps I am misinformed, but it's my understanding that DU has been in use
for armor-piercing applications for decades and is not a new Desert Storm
technology. Am I right or wrong on this?


Bob Flood
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(415) 926-3793     bflood@slac.stanford.edu
Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are mine alone.