Chemical Weapons Convention Archive

This week U.S. Chemical Weapons destruction has been in the news. Construction has finally begun on the facility planned for the Pueblo, Colorado destruction site, and old chemical weapons found at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, Hawai’i are being destroyed.

• “Army destroying old chemical munitions”, William Cole, HonoluluAdvertiser.com, April 9, 2008.

• “Army begins destruction of 71 chemical weapons”, William Cole, HonoluluAdvertiser.com, April 15, 2008. – This one also includes a little photo gallery of the weapons disposal facility.

• “Ground broken on facility to destroy chemical weapons”, The Denver Post, April 14, 2008.

• “Chem demil projects get under way”, John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftan, April 14, 2008.

In other news on chemical weapons destruction, Canadian researchers reported “an exciting new method for rapidly and safely destroying toxic agents such as chemical weapons and pesticides.” Apparently it works extremely quickly and the degradation products are non-toxic making it “a ‘green’ alternative to existing decontamination practices.”

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