Mk 84 iron bomb version with depleted uranium?
Is there a version of the Mk 84 'iron bomb' that contained depleted uranium
(DU) to give the Mk 84 a better performance as bunker buster? I'm asking as
a spokesperson for the State Department said on 8 June 1981 in reaction to
the Israeli attack on the Iraqi Osirak/Tammuz 17 nuclear reactor:
"US-supplied uranium weapons used in the raid..." The only way those dropped
Mk 84 could have been a kind of uranium weapon would be that they contained
DU. Would make sense to me, but I never read that such a version of the Mk
84 existed. Anybody any info about that?
Thanks,
MCN
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