Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions
Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1993-02-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0309049466

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The 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.

By Fire and Ice
By Fire and Ice

Author: David A. Koplow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1000261816

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This 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.