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20 January 2012

US Army Burns off Final Chem Weapons in Utah


STOCKTON, Utah -- The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile - a witches' brew of toxins, blister and blood agents that accumulated through the Cold War.


The Army's Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah's west desert burned its last hard weapons in a 1,500-degree furnace on Wednesday - projectiles that contained mustard agent, which can produce painful skin blisters. The last tray of 23 projectiles came out of a furnace at 2:11 p.m. after baking for two hours, a process that rendered the mustard agent harmless.


The depot - which at its peak held some 13,600 tons of chemical agents, making it the world's largest - expects to complete the job by the weekend when it incinerates bulk supplies of Lewisite, a powerful skin, eye and lung irritant.

source: Military.com

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