[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: "Army scrapping 4 U.S. chemical weapons incinerators"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army scrapping 4 U.S. chemical weapons incinerators


By Jay Reeves
The Associated Press/Army Times
November 17, 2013

ANNISTON, ALA. - The Pentagon spent $10.2 billion over three decades burning tons of deadly nerve gas and other chemical weapons stored in four states - some of the agents so deadly even a few drops can kill.

Now, with all those chemicals up in smoke and communities freed of a threat, the Army is in the middle of another, $1.3 billion project: Demolishing the incinerators that destroyed the toxic materials.

In Alabama, Oregon, Utah and Arkansas, crews are either tearing apart multibillion-dollar incinerators or working to draw the curtain on a drama that began in the Cold War, when the United States and the former Soviet Union stockpiled millions of pounds of chemical weapons.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20131117/NEWS04/311170009
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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