The Nation - News from Jan. 24, 1986
The Army announced it is launching a major environmental impact study of how best to dispose of aging stockpiles of chemical weapons. The service said it hoped to complete a draft environmental impact statement by late summer after analyzing “the impacts associated with alternate courses of action for destroying the chemical munitions and agents.” The United States has not produced chemical weapons since 1969, prompting warnings that they had become dangerous to store.
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