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October 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM. ... Craig Williams, co-chair of the Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and the Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board, said the ...
Jul. 13—Blake Vickers On Tuesday morning, a change of command ceremony was held at the Bluegrass Army Depot. After two years of commanding the depot, Col. Stephen Dorris retired and transferred ...
The secretary of the Army called it “a momentous day for the U.S. chemical demilitarization program.” Last chemical weapon in nation’s stockpile has been destroyed in Central Kentucky Skip ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Chemical weapons destruction resumed in 2015. [42] The country's last stockpile was at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. [43] The U.S. destroyed its final chemical weapon on July 7, 2023. [44] The final weapon to be destroyed was a sarin nerve agent-filled M55 rocket. The total cost for the program to destroy chemical weapons was $40 ...
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