Ammunition giant Alliant Techsystems has "embarked on the somewhat oxymoronic quest," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports, "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 paper notes, "the U.S. military hopes to eliminate lead from most of its bullets over the next decade."
Ammunition giant Alliant Techsystems has "embarked on the somewhat oxymoronic quest," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports, "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 paper notes, "the U.S. military hopes to eliminate lead from most of its bullets over the next decade."