[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, CHEMWEAPONS: "Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville [AL] still cleaning up buried munitions from World War II era"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville still cleaning up buried munitions from World War II era

By LEE ROOP   
Tribune News Service/AL.com
February 28, 2023

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal is getting new attention for an ongoing $1 billion cleanup of old and unexploded chemical and conventional munitions from burial sites on the base.

The online military website Army.mil featured the chemical munitions cleanup in February focusing on soldiers who get experience with chemical agents through the operation. An unexploded ordnance supervisor interviewed for the story estimated the work will continue through 2025.

Known today as home to major U.S. military commands and a top NASA center, the Huntsville “arsenal” was literally that – a large Army munitions factory – during and for a period after World War II. American troops also brought home unused munitions and captured enemy munitions that ended up at Redstone for study and disposal after the war.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/history/2023-02-28/alabama-redstone-arsenal-buried-munitions-wwii-era-9284697.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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