Will the USA ever quit using spent uranuim rockets?

Question

Spent uranuim is STILL uranuim and is a WMD.

Answer 1

Hey, it's the perfect solution to a waste disposal problem. Why pay to dispose of nuclear waste, when you can make it into Shells, bullets and other types of ordinance and basically shoot it into some other country or its people.
Talk about two birds with one stone, eh?

Answer 2

That's "depleted uranium" and it's a vital component of artillery projectiles meant to penetrate armor. It retains very, very little radioactivity and is safe to handle. When it becomes a problem is upon detonation of the projectile it's incorporated into - it does create a certain amount of dust that can be mildly to moderately toxic if inhaled. Our troops are supposedly taught how to minimise their exposure to that dust during combat. Whether that's actually been the case in every instance is seriously in doubt.
In any case, depleted uranium is not used in rockets, and can in no way be considered a WMD. There's only one WMD in the world today, and that's the nuclear warhead. All other items labelled "WMD" are no such thing. Whether chemical or biological agents, they have a very limited usefulness. They are, in fact, almost as hazardous to the user as to the intended victims. That's why the world learned in the First World War that poison gas is not a terribly efficient weapon - though it was used, it almost always caused many problems for both sides and never once figured prominently in a major battlefield triumph.

Answer 3

OMG! It's you again.......Weren't you a DJ for that LIBERAL Anti-Bush HATE Radio station that George Soros sponsored until it went out of business?

Your Communist T-Shirt makes you look kinda chunky in front of the American Flag. Have you been sniffing spent uranium rockets or spent rockets from uranus?

Spent rockets from uranus is STILL a WAD!

Answer 4

From a military standpoint, uranium is excellent for use in weaponry because of it's radioactiveness (if the chemical itself doesn't kill you, it will leave you crippled for life, resulting in one less-able man to fight) and combined with other explosives, can penetrate most forms of armor than a regular international legal munition. Until another element is found to replace uranium as an effective additive to munitions, it will probably still at the top of the list.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I don't consider depleted uranium rounds to be WMDs....

Answer 7

No, because the company that makes them is owned by some rich Democrate.

Answer 8

we are here to protect Americana's way of life, oil in Iraq with missiles point at N. Korea and Iran....Whoa

Answer 9

Not as long as there is a no bid open contract for them

Go big red Go

Answer 10

Probably not until they find something else that is as effective.