http://fas.org/blog/cw Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:30:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few more articles and editorials appeared this weekend in the wake of USA Today's July 2 report that the DoD plans to transport CW between facilities to speed up their destruction. Give it up: Utah won't accept more chemical weapons - The Salt Lake Tribune The Pentagon just won't give up ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/07/transport-cw-part-ii.html Yesterday's report in USA Today about the Pentagon's draft plan to transport CW to other sites for destruction has spawned a series of additional articles. PB Arsenal to get more to destroy? - Arkansas Democrat Gazette The Pentagon has drafted a plan to send more of its chemical weapon stockpile to the ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/07/transport-cw.html Today an article in USA Today reported that the Department of Defense is planning to transport CW to and from destruction sites in order to speed up the process and meet the 2017 deadline for complete CW stockpile destruction set by Congress. This is already later than the deadline of ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/07/pentagon-plans-to-transport-chemical-weapons-across-the-us.html This week the Pine bluff Arsenal announced that it had finished destroying all VX-filled land mines. This marks the complete destruction of all nerve agent at the facility, and the final phase of CW disposal will focus on containers of mustard gas. Pine Bluff Arsenal Completes Destruction Of Nerve Agent - ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/06/chemical-weapons-news-june-27-2008.html The Colorado State Health Department is ordering the Department of Defense to speed up the destruction of mustard gas at the Pueblo Chemical Weapons Destruction Depot. The Pentagon says that limited funding is the reason for slow destruction timelines. http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/06/colorado-seeks-to-speed-up-cw-destruction.html On June 17, 2008 Russia opened its new Leonidovka chemical weapons destruction facility. The Director General of the OPCW, Rogelio Pfirter was on hand for the official opening of the facility, and the event was well-covered in the international media. Russia steps up destruction of chemical weapons - Reuters Russia will ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/06/russia-opens-a-new-cw-destruction-facility.html The June issue of the OPCW publication Chemical Disarmament Quarterly is now available. Its main focus is on the Second Review Conference of the CWC which took place April 7-18 in the Hague. This issue contains the opening statement by Director General Pfirter and the opening message from UN Secretary General ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/06/june-issue-of-chemical-disarmament-quarterly-focuses-on-second-review-conference.html From the US: Wildlife refuge reopens after chemical weapons cleanup - Brighton Standard-Blade The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge will re-open Saturday, June 14, after a seven-month closure. The refuge closed in late October after traces of the chemical weapons agent Lewisite were found ... Ala. chemical weapons worker dies of heart ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/06/chemical-weapons-news-june-13-2008.html The OPCW has provided on its website a summary of the Second Review Conference Open Forum "The Chemical Weapons Convention - recent experience and future prospects." The Open Forum took place on April 9, 2008 at OPCW Headquarters during the Second Review Conference of the CWC. It provided an opportunity for ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/06/opcw-open-forum-summary.html Army Lauds Progress on Chemical Weapons Disposal - Global Security Newswire The U.S. military says it has destroyed more than half of its stockpile of chemical warfare agents without harming communities near the disposal sites, the Associated Press reported today ... A look at chemical weapons destruction in the US - The ... http://fas.org/blog/cw/2008/06/us-chemical-weapons-destruction-news-june-7-2008.html