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Wednesday, September 03, 2003

US military goes green?

At the request of the U.S. military, Alliant's ATK ammunition division is embarked on the somewhat oxymoronic quest to design a new "green" bullet that is every bit as lethal to people but doesn't pose the same threat to the environment as lead-based ones. If Alliant is successful, the U.S. military hopes to eliminate lead from most of its bullets over the next decade.

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With lead bullets "there is a cost in terms of health, human safety and cleanup . . . This is not a fire-and-forget kind of thing. Eventually we have to pay somebody to go out there and clean up that lead."

"The whole intent of green bullets is not to just have them used in some environmentally sensitive site like the Massachusetts Military Reservation or an Alaska tundra, but to produce bullets of all sizes for the whole Army that are more environmentally safe and good in combat," DiMichele said.

Green bullets are just as deadly as lead ones.

posted by chris at 5:51 PM
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