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The Pine Bluff Arsenal is a United States Army installation in Jefferson County, Arkansas, about eight miles northwest of Pine Bluff and thirty miles southeast of Little Rock. Pine Bluff Arsenal is one of nine Army installations in the United States that stored chemical weapons . [ 1 ]
The Pine Bluff Arsenal is a former chemical weapons production, storage and disposal site located in southeastern Arkansas. Established in 1941, this 14,944-acre (60.48 km 2) facility was a manufacturing port for many chemical weapons.
Pine Bluff Chemical Activity (abbreviated PBCA) is a subordinate organization of the United States Army Chemical Materials Agency located at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The U.S. Army stored approximately twelve percent of its original chemical weapons at the Pine Bluff Arsenal since 1942. Destruction of the last chemical weapons ...
PBA Pine Bluff Arsenal (1941–present) – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA. ROP Redstone Ordnance Plant – Huntsville, Alabama (1941–1949). Combined with the Huntsville Depot facility to form Redstone Arsenal in 1949. SL St. Louis Ordnance Plant (November 1941 to June 1945) – St. Louis, Missouri. SND Seneca Ordnance Depot (1941 - 1990s ...
The design was standardized in 1976 and production began on December 16, 1987 at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Production was halted three years later, following the 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord between the United States and the USSR, and the dismantling of existing stocks began in November 1997 at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada.
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U.S. biological weapons stocks were destroyed over the next few years. A $12 million disposal plan was undertaken at Pine Bluff Arsenal, [32] where all U.S. anti-personnel biological agents were stored. [31] That plan was completed in May 1972 and included decontamination of facilities at Pine Bluff.
The United States Army re-evaluated its chemical and biological weapons programs in 1961. [1] This re-evaluation led to a renewed focus on an incapacitating agent program. [1] A project was established to begin producing BZ munitions; one result was the mass production of the Chemical Corps' M43 BZ cluster bomb in March 1962.