Strategic Metals and National Defense: Tungsten in World ...
to stimulate tungsten production and use. Var and its preparation also played a role in tungsten's rise. The enormous mili tary demands for heavy equipment, steel tools and weapons, armor plate, ~mel armor piercing shells in the first half of the twentieth century made tungsten one of the world's strategic metals, an clement with politi cal as well as economic importance2 Strategic Metals ...