Members of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Executive Council attended a Chemical Demilitarization Transparency Event focused on destruction progress at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant and hosted online by the U.S. March 21-22.
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Destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile located in two states has reached the 75% completion mark, with a combined total of more than 2,352 U.S. tons of chemical agent destroyed as of Jan. 14, 2022.
The deputy program executive officer for the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons was recognized for his appointment into the Senior Executive Service at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Aug. 26, 2019.
Thousands of chemical mortar rounds in Colorado are on the brink of destruction, nearly a century after an Army colonel revolutionized the way they would be used to defend troops on the battlefield.
Chemical weapons free by 2023, the vision and goal of the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program, can be achieved if its destruction plants can maintain steady state operations, said the programs’ leader.
Chemical weapons free by 2023, the vision and goal of the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program, can be achieved if its destruction plants can maintain steady state operations, said the programs’ leader.
Near Richmond, Kentucky, hundreds of trained technicians are testing a pilot plant designed and built to methodically disassemble and destroy a portion of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile which contains the blister agent mustard and nerve agents, GB and VX. This stockpile consists of thousands of projectiles and rockets and has been safely stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot since the 1940s.
U.S. Army technicians are training and preparing to collect nerve agent samples from the Blue Grass Army Depot chemical weapons stockpile in May to help prepare the Blue Grass plant for future operations.
The Program Executive Officer who leads the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program marked his retirement during a ceremony April 26 on the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
More than 20 experts from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Chemical Demilitarization met with the leadership of the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives to review progress and receive technical updates Nov. 16-18 in Aberdeen, Maryland.