The Army ’s tungsten - based bullets were designed to be more eco - friendly , butresearch showing tungsten increases genus Cancer riskpushed them to tear the plug . The problem , Danger Room signal out , is that tungsten munition are everywhere .
The Army began using tungsten in its weapons to supplant depleted U , which is also allegedly ( but notoriously)nasty stuff . Tungsten is used in missile carried by poke , the Phalanx anti - missile Richard Jordan Gatling gun , anti - tank round and a lot more . What ’s unhinged is that even as the Army stops using tungsten in training ammunition , it ’s still looking at tungsten as a eat up uranium in other clobber .
On the other hand , it ’s not like slug and other artillery , though they might be more advanced technological terrors , are n’t designed to horrifying thing to human beings in the first place . [ Danger Room , Image : longhorndave / Flickr ]
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