U.S. Wants To Delay Weapons Destruction At PB Arsenal
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The United States says today it won`t meet an
April 2004 deadline for destroying 45 percent of its chemical
weapons stockpile. The Pentagon says it asked the world body that
governs the destruction requirement for a delay until December
2007.
The United States has destroyed about 23 percent of its declared
stockpile of 31-thousand-280 tons of mustard gas, sarin and other
chemical weapons.
The Pentagon says environmental, safety and other problems at
high-temperature incinerators have made it impossible to meet the
2004 deadline.
Several thousand tons of chemicals have been destroyed at
incinerators in Utah. Another incinerator at Anniston, Alabama,
began operating last month. And incinerators are being tested at
Pine Bluff Arsenal and at a facility in Oregon.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
