22 July 2008
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is combing the nation's terrain for
unused mortar rounds, bullets and grenades, and they're searching
abandoned World War II training grounds in South Mississippi.
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09 July 2008
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The following table gives the number of aviation bombs in
process of neutralisation (column 2) and number of bombs where the
neutralised reaction mass has been extracted from the bomb (column 3)
(source: Mirny Green Cross public outreach office).
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08 July 2008
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| The following table gives the amount of Lewisite destroyed
at the Kambarka CWDF (source: Kambarka Green Cross public outreach
office).
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06 June 2008
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The proceedings of the 9th Green Cross National Dialogue Forum on
Russian chemical weapons destruction, held 31 October - 1 November 2007
in Moscow, are now available online for download.
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06 May 2008
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| The Pine Bluff Arsenal has begun destroying VX nerve-agent
landmines as it continues disposing of the post's stockpile of chemical
weapons.
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14 April 2008
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| THE HAGUE — Experts who have been listening to diplomats
speak for several days had their opportunity yesterday to point the way
toward improved chemical weapons destruction and nonproliferation
regimes (see GSN, April 3).
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14 April 2008
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| THE HAGUE — The presence of U.S. and Iranian officials in
one room proved less combustible than it has in the past this week at
the second review conference for the Chemical Weapons Convention (see
GSN, April 28, 2003).
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11 April 2008
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| The U.S. Defense Department has fallen behind in completing
a timetable to destroy 157 gallons of sarin nerve agent at the Blue
Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported
Friday (see GSN, March 25).
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11 April 2008
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| Russia’s Maradykovsky facility is expected to resume
chemical weapons destruction operations after receiving a formal
go-ahead next week, Interfax reported Friday (see GSN, Jan. 25).
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11 April 2008
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| Several nations must delink their larger security concerns from their reluctance to join the Chemical Weapons Convention, the multilateral treaty that bans the deadly weapons in all but 12 countries, the pact’s top official said Friday (see GSN, April 3).
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11 April 2008
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| Twice per week, three-truck convoys roll down the interstate
highways of eight states carrying wastewater from the neutralization of
VX nerve agent.
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15 March 2008
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| Russian lawmakers are considering legislation that to seal
an agreement under which Italy would provide more than $560 million in
chemical weapons disposal assistance to the former Cold War superpower,
Interfax reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 1, 2007).
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08 March 2008
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| During April 7-18, 2008 representatives of 183 states-parties of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) will meet in The Hague for the second time to review the operation of the treaty and to find ways to adapt it for the future. Although there is likely to be broad agreement that the treaty has registered significant accomplishments in its first decade in operation, it is not clear if there is sufficient political will to tackle current diplomatic,technological, and economic challenges. Moreover, the meeting could be affected by tensions between developed and developing countries and between the United States and Iran that have hampered other multilateral talks.
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26 February 2008
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| The employees pull up to the gate, show their identification
cards to the armed security guards and continue on. They drive past
wooded stretches and open fields, past the occasional frolicking deer,
and park before buildings of almost requisite ugliness. Shift time.
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22 February 2008
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| U.S. Senator Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) said Monday that Congress
would work to ensure that the Defense Department meets the new 2017
deadline to eliminate its arsenal of chemical weapons, the Pueblo
Chieftain reported (see GSN, Jan. 15).
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21 February 2008
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| 19/02/2008 (RIA Novosti) - Russia should be able to destroy
all its stockpiles of chemical weapons by 2012, a first deputy prime
minister said on Tuesday.
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05 February 2008
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| The U.S. Defense Department has increased its fiscal 2009
funding request by nearly $50 million to eliminate chemical weapons
stored in Colorado and Kentucky, the Louisville Courier-Journal
reported yesterday(see GSN, Jan. 15.).
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05 February 2008
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| A Syrian site bombed by Israel in September was probably not an
unfinished nuclear reactor, as suggested by U.S. and Israeli officials,
or a simple agricultural facility, as described by some Syrian
officials, the New Yorker reported this week (see GSN, Jan. 17).
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22 January 2008
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| About 76 percent of the chemical agent VX stored at Newport
Chemical Depot has been chemically neutralized, and VX destruction
could be completed as early as this summer, officials say.
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22 January 2008
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| India has claimed to destroy its 93 per cent of chemical
weapon stockpile and the remaining weapons will be eliminated by April
2009.
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