Declared Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel – Completed April 2010
In April, 2010, operators at the Pine Bluff Explosive Destruction System located at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark., destroyed the last munition of its inventory – marking the destruction of all non-stockpile materiel declared prior to when the United States entered into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Binary Chemical Weapons - Completed November 2007
The U.S. Army developed binary chemical weapons in the early 1980s to modernize its aging chemical weapons stockpile. Designed to mix two non-lethal chemicals while in flight to a target to form chemical agent, binary chemical weapons development helped move the Soviet Union into arms reduction negotiation and the signing of a bilateral agreement in 1990. This agreement led to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty signed by over 180 countries that mandates the elimination of chemical warfare materiel and former chemical weapons production facilities.
The U.S. Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project (NSCMP) was tasked with destroying existing stores of QL and DF, chemicals designed for use in binary chemical munitions. NSCMP finished neutralizing the chemicals in October 2006 at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark. The final building used for destroying the binary chemicals was demolished in December 2006, completing binary neutralization at Pine Bluff Arsenal. NSCMP shipped the resulting wastewater to a facility in Texas for final treatment and disposal using wet air oxidation (WAO), which was completed in November 2007.
In addition to neutralizing the binary chemicals, the mission included recycling empty munition bodies of the Bigeye Bombs, completed in 1998; and destroying more than 258,000 M687 155 mm projectiles through recycling operations at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev., completed in 1999
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Former Chemical Warfare Production Facilities - Completed December 2006
The CWC mandated demolition of all chemical weapons production facilities designed, constructed or used after Jan. 1, 1946. NSCMP demolished former chemical weapons production facilities at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark., Newport Chemical Depot, Ind., and Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
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Miscellaneous Chemical Warfare Materiel – Treaty items completed 2002
This category includes both treaty and non-treaty items, such as unfilled munitions, support equipment and devices designed for use with chemical weapons. These include complete assembled rounds without chemical fill and with or without bursters and fuzes, stimulant-filled munitions, inert munitions, dummy munitions, bursters and fuzes, empty rocket warheads and motors, projectile cases, other metal and plastic part components, research and development compounds, chemical samples and ton containers.
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