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As of Feb. 24, 2023, 75% of the original stockpile of chemical agent at BGCAPP has been destroyed. On March 31, 2023, PCAPP completed destruction of more than 20,000 4.2-inch mortar rounds filled with HT mustard agent. On April 8, 2023, PCAPP began destroying 4.2-inch mortar rounds filled with HD mustard agent in the main plant.
Tooele Chemical Demilitarization Facility at Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah finished disposal on January 21, 2012. [ 18 ] Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky finished disposal on July 7, 2023 marking the destruction of all chemical weapons stockpiles declared to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons , the international body ...
Deseret Chemical Depot held 44% of the nation's chemical stockpile when processing began, and it had held some of these chemical munitions since 1942. TOCDF was constructed in the early 1990s and began destruction of chemical agent-filled munitions on 22 August 1996. As of September 2011, the facility had processed 99% of its stockpile.
The U.S. Army has outlined several ideas the plant can be used for in the future. They range from making shipping containers to supplying parts for American ammunition.
The secretary of the Army called it “a momentous day for the U.S. chemical demilitarization program.”
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is a facility built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD), near Richmond, Kentucky. The last munition, an M55 rocket containing GB nerve agent, was destroyed July 7, 2023. It marked the last chemical weapon in the U.S. stockpile.
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