U.S. Envoy to Escort Load of Chemical Arms
U.S. Ambassador Vernon A. Walters will ride a train loaded with chemical weapons to reassure the public that their movement through densely populated areas poses no danger, the U.S. Embassy said Thursday.
Walters will board the train tonight in Miesau in the southwest to travel to the North Sea port of Nordenham, where the poison gas shells will be loaded on ships and taken to the Pacific for destruction, the embassy said.
Over the next week, two trains a night will take 400 tons of U.S. chemical arms on two routes about 370 miles from Miesau to Nordenham.
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