[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: "Two suspected mustard gas rounds found at [Delaware] seafood plant"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Two suspected mustard gas rounds found at seafood plant

by WILLIAM H. MCMICHAEL AND JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
January 28, 2015


Two artillery rounds possibly filled with mustard gas and dredged up during a Delaware seafood processor's recent clamming operations were recovered and secured by Dover Air Force Base bomb experts last week, the base announced Tuesday.

While the location wasn't announced, an official who asked not to be named confirmed that the rounds were found at Sea Watch International in Milford, where a round that contained a small amount of mustard agent was found on a conveyer belt in June 2012.

The base initially called the newly found munitions "mustard rounds," but a spokeswoman later acknowledged that testing had yet to be done and that the descriptor was based upon the rounds' appearance and similarity to rounds containing the World War I-era chemical previously recovered from the same area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2015/01/27/two-mustard-gas-rounds-found-seafood-plant/22401577/

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Lenny Siegel
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