Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants.

摘要

More than 25 years ago, in 1986, the U.S. Army began destruction of its nearly 30,000-ton legacy of stockpiled chemical agents, stored in approximately 3 million individual munitions as well as numerous bulk agent containers. The nations chemical weapons demilitarization effort has succeeded in destroying the chemical munitions and bulk agent stored at six of the eight chemical agent depots located in the continental United States. Chemical weapons that had been deployed abroad and relocated to a storage depot on Johnston Atoll, southwest of Hawaii, have also been successfully destroyed. To date, 90 percent of the original U.S. stockpile has been safely destroyed. In the present report, the ACWA Monitoring Committee presents its findings and recommendations to the Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PMACWA), whose staff is responsible for the construction, operation, and closure of the last two U.S. chemical weapons stockpile demilitarization facilities. During its deliberations, the committee benefited from the insights and analyses of senior ACWA personnel.