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The depot housed 2,613 tons (2,369 metric tons) of mustard agent in approximately 780,000 munitions, equivalent to about seven percent of the original chemical materiel stockpile of the United States. Destruction operations began at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in spring 2015 [2] with full-scale operations beginning later ...
With 383,000 105mm shells filled with mustard agent destroyed, 89% of the stockpile kept at Pueblo has been destroyed. Work could finish in 2023. Pueblo Chemical Depot celebrates munitions ...
On May 25, 2023, PCAPP received the final delivery of mortar rounds from the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot. Delivery of all munitions is complete. On June 16, 2023, the last munition, a 4.2-inch mortar round, was destroyed in the PCAPP main plant. On June 22, 2023, the last munition in the chemical weapons stockpile stored at the Pueblo ...
On May 25, 2023, the final delivery of munitions from the Pueblo Chemical Depot to the PCAPP main plant was made. On June 16, 2023, the last munition, a 4.2-inch mortar round, was destroyed in this facility. On June 20, 2023, the final delivery of munitions from the Pueblo Chemical Depot was made to the Pueblo Static Detonation Chamber complex.
Local, state and national leaders gathered in Pueblo Wednesday to celebrate the end of chemical munitions destruction efforts in the Home of Heroes.
In southern Colorado, workers at the Army Pueblo Chemical Depot started destroying the weapons in 2016, and on June 22 completed their mission of neutralizing an entire cache of about 2,600 tons ...
The primary remaining chemical weapon storage facilities in the U.S. became Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado and Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. [27] These two facilities held 10.25% of the U.S. 1997 declared stockpile and destruction operations are under the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives. [28]
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