Destroying Nerve Agent at Newport, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Neutralizing WMD
U.S. to destroy lethal nerve agent

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Cape Cod Times
July 21, 2004

NEWPORT, Ind. - In a cavernous, pipe-filled structure known simply as the
Utility Building, Army contractors are beginning to destroy a Cold War-era
concoction so lethal it could kill untold millions.

After years of controversy, 1,269 tons of the ultra-deadly nerve agent VX
are beginning to be neutralized this summer as part of a plan to eliminate
the nation's chemical weapons stockpile.

Residents near the Newport Chemical Depot are ready to see the VX go. So
are activists who keep tabs on the nation's cache of weapons of mass
destruction.

"One drop the size of George Washington's eye on a quarter is enough to
kill a healthy, 180-pound male. It's the most lethal chemical on the
planet," said Craig Williams, director of the Chemical Weapons Working
Group, a Kentucky-based watchdog organization.

But a dispute over what will become of the project's wastewater could leave
the rural community about 70 miles west of Indianapolis stuck with the
nerve agent's legacy.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/neutralizingwmd21.htm


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