Putting Our Troops And The Rest Of The World At Risk A talk by
Dr. Doug Rokke, member of U.S. Army Medical Command’s Special
Operations during Gulf War 1, Produced February 23,2003. In the
1970s, the Pentagon reported that the Soviet military had
developed armor plating for Warsaw Pact tanks that NATO
ammunition could not penetrate. The Pentagon began searching for
material to make denser armor-piercing projectiles. After
testing various metals, ordnance researchers settled on depleted
uranium. The US and NATO militaries used DU penetrator rounds in
the 1991 Gulf War, the Bosnia war, bombing of Serbia, and the
2003 invasion of Iraq. While clearing a decades-old Hawaii
firing range in 2005, workers found depleted uranium fins from
training rounds from the formerly classified Davy Crockett
recoilless gun tactical battlefield nuclear delivery system from
the 1960-1970s. These training rounds had been forgotten because
they were used in a highly classified program and had been fired
before DU had become an item o