[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: "Why do chemical weapons keep turning up in Delaware?"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Why do chemical weapons keep turning up in Delaware?

By Matthew Korfhage
USA TODAY NETWORK
April 11, 2023

This January, the Milford facility of clamming company Sea Watch International discovered something both alarming and routine on Delaware shores: a 75-mm mustard-gas shell, built by the U.S. military for possible deployment during World War II. 

A U.S. Army civilian team responded quickly to remove the shell to Dover Air Force Base, where it will be stored before eventual disposal. 

The shell’s discovery wasn’t announced until mid-March, however, by which time another suspected chemical shell had also already surfaced at Sea Watch. This time, the 75-mm shell turned out to contain riot gas instead.

These are not isolated events. Dover Air Force Base has received five chemical weapons shells in the past 18 months in Delaware. The state is unique “in the quantity and consistency of unexploded ordnance recovered containing a live chemical agent,” according to U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Quentin S. Tubbs, quoted in a March release by the Department of Defense.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2023/04/11/delaware-hotbed-recovering-chemical-weapons-dover-air-force-base/70093247007/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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