Safely Destroying America's Chemical Weapons
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0309049466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established with the goal of destroying the nation's stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons. Since 1990 the U.S. Army has been testing a baseline incineration technology on Johnston Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Under the planned disposal program, this baseline technology will be imported in the mid to late 1990s to continental United States disposal facilities; construction will include eight stockpile storage sites. In early 1992 the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies was formed by the National Research Council to investigate potential alternatives to the baseline technology. This book, the result of its investigation, addresses the use of alternative destruction technologies to replace, partly or wholly, or to be used in addition to the baseline technology. The book considers principal technologies that might be applied to the disposal program, strategies that might be used to manage the stockpile, and combinations of technologies that might be employed.
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Publisher: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 204
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David A. Koplow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1000261816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1997, examines the forced merger between national security interests and environmental policy makers arising from the Chemical Weapons Convention and its requirement to safely dismantle the world’s chemical weapons stockpiles. The two groups had to find a way to intersect and work together, and this book analyses the problems and politics involved.
Author: Thomas J. Howard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1997-06
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780788143540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSine 1985, the Army has spent $3.2 billion on its programs for destroying the U.S. stockpile of chemical munitions and planning for the disposal of nonstockpile chemical warfare materiel. The Army estimates that $24.4 billion more will be needed to complete these programs. This report describes the DoD's programs for destroying the U.S. stockpile of chemical munitions and planning for the disposal of nonstockpile chemical warfare materiel. Provides an overall assessment of the programs' cost and schedule, alternatives for improving program effectiveness and efficiency, and actions the Army has and is taking to improve the programs. Charts and tables.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009-05-22
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0309126835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Army's ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate explosive destruction technologies (EDTs) to augment the main technologies to be used to destroy the chemical weapons currently at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky and the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado. The Army is considering four EDTs for the destruction of chemical weapons: three from private sector vendors, and a fourth, Army-developed explosive destruction system (EDS). This book updates earlier evaluations of these technologies, as well as any other viable detonation technologies, based on several considerations including process maturity, process efficacy, process throughput, process safety, public and regulatory acceptability, and secondary waste issues, among others. It also provides detailed information on each of the requirements at BGAD and PCD and rates each of the existing suitable EDTs plus the Army's EDS with respect to how well it satisfies these requirements.
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Published: 1997
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn April 29, 1997, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), entered into force. At that time, the United States and 86 other nations became the first countries to sign and ratify the CWC. In doing so, the United States agreed to destroy all their chemical weapons and former chemical weapons production facilities and to abide by prohibitions from development, use, production and acquisition of chemical weapons. Today, more than 170 nations have ratified the CWC. Since entry into force of the CWC, the United States has destroyed more than 1.4 million munitions and more than 10,000 metric tons of chemical agent, representing more than 35 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile. The United States has also destroyed all of its unfilled munitions and binary projectiles and 12 of 14 former chemical weapons production facilities in compliance with CWC deadlines. The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) is responsible for safely destroying the majority of the remaining U.S. chemical weapons and related materials that are the legacy of our nation's past chemical weapons production. Additional responsibility for destroying U.S. chemical weapons stored at Army installations in Kentucky and Colorado falls under the U.S. Department of Defense s Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program. Achievements.