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Colorado, U.S. Army at Impasse Over Chemical Agent Monitoring
Wednesday, March 17, 2010Negotiations have stalled between the U.S. Army and the Colorado Public Health and Environment Department over a demand by the state that chemical munitions stockpiled at the Pueblo Chemical Depot be ...
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Colorado Keeps Up Fight on Chemical Weapons Disposal Deadline
Tuesday, March 16, 2010The state of Colorado is continuing its effort to require the U.S. Defense Department to meet a congressionally mandated deadline for complete destruction of the nation's chemical weapons stockpile, including ...
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Japan Counts More Than 6,000 Victims of Nerve Agent Strike
Friday, March 12, 2010A recent survey indicates that 6,252 people suffered some level of injury from exposure to sarin nerve agent released inside the Tokyo subway system in 1995, Kyodo News reported yesterday (see GSN, March ...
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Pentagon Has Yet to Rule on Chemical Weapons Detonation Plan
Thursday, March 11, 2010The U.S. Defense Department has not yet made a decision on whether to allow the disposal by explosives of a portion of the chemical munitions held at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, the Richmond ...
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Pueblo Depot Has "Successful" Inspection
Tuesday, March 9, 2010A team of inspectors from the international organization charged with overseeing implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention traveled to Colorado last week for the yearly audit of munitions stored at ...
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Additional Death Counted in Tokyo Sarin Attack
Tuesday, March 9, 2010Japanese authorities have identified an additional fatality in the 1995 terrorist attack in which sarin nerve agent was released inside the Tokyo subway system, Jiji Press reported Saturday (see GSN, Feb. ...
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Blue Grass Depot Clears International Audit
Friday, March 5, 2010The Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky passed an annual international inspection last month as part of verification procedures aimed at ensuring U.S. compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention, the U.S. ...
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Russia Pledges to Finish Building CW Disposal Plants in 2011
Thursday, March 4, 2010Russia intends to finish building its complement of seven planned chemical weapons disposal plants next year, RIA Novosti reported yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 10, 2009). ...
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Chemical Weapons Detonation Won't Harm Environment, Study Finds
Tuesday, March 2, 2010A federally mandated study has found that there would be "no significant impacts" to the environment through a U.S. Defense Department proposal to detonate a portion of the chemical weapons stored at the ...
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OPCW Chief Travels to Alabama Chemical Weapons Depot
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons last week toured the chemical munitions disposal facility at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama (see GSN, Dec. 15, 2009). ...
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Plan to Detonate Some U.S. Chemical Weapons Finds Resistance
Friday, Feb. 19, 2010A plan by the U.S. Defense Department to eliminate a portion of the chemical weapons stored in two states by detonation faces opposition from environmental activists and some residents, the Associated Press ...
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Top Member of Japanese Cult Loses Final Appeal
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010A former high-level of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan on Tuesday lost his final opportunity to stave off execution for crimes including the release of sarin nerve agent inside the Tokyo subway system, Kyodo ...
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Pentagon Seeks $511M For Chemical Weapons Disposal Program
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010The fiscal 2011 budget request submitted by U.S. President Barack Obama to Congress yesterday seeks $510.8 million for the Defense Department agency planning chemical weapons disposal operations at the Pueblo ...
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New Blister Agent Leak Discovered at Umatilla Depot
Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010Minute amounts of mustard blister agent vapor were discovered yesterday within a storage structure at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon, the Tri-City, Wash., Herald reported (see GSN, Dec. 16, 2009). ...
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Umatilla Chemical Depot Resumes Disposal Operations
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010The incineration of chemical warfare materials stockpiled at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon has started up again following the state-ordered halt to disposal in October, the Tri-City, Wash., Herald ...