2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 8 Oct 2004 20:43:14 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] "Non-Stockpile" Open House in Dover
 
Mustard gas shells to be destroyed
Army to demolish ordnance found in Sussex driveway

By JAMES MERRIWEATHER
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
October 7, 2004

Since the prototype was introduced five years ago, the Army's Explosive Destruction System has safely destroyed every chemical weapon that it's come up against.

And the head of the Army's Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program said Wednesday that destroying a mustard gas shell now stored at Dover Air Force Base was not likely to spoil that perfect record.

"We've done it 227 times without a problem," said William Brankowitz, project manager of the program and leader of an 11-person entourage from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.



for the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/10/07mustardgasshell.html

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