Last Of The Nerve Gas Eradicated From U.S. Stockpile
You won’t hear of this in the mainstream media or too many other places, as they don’t like to report all the things we ever do right.
News Release from the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency:
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) announced the safe destruction of the last VX nerve agent-filled spray tank in the U.S. chemical stockpile. The last of the stockpiled spray tanks were destroyed at the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) in Umatilla, Ore., on Monday, Dec. 24, 2007.
Spray tank disposal operations first began at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) on July 23, 2004. Out of the 1,018 original stockpile spray tanks, TOCDF was responsible for the disposal of 862 tanks. On Nov. 23, 2007, the UMCDF began to safely destroy the last 156 spray tanks which were stored at the Umatilla Chemical Depot.
CMA’s Acting Director, Dale Ormond said, “In June 2006, the last sarin-filled MC1 bomb in the U.S. stockpile was destroyed. The elimination of yet another deadly weapon, the VX TMU-28 spray tank, from the stockpile demonstrates the Army’s commitment to ridding the country of chemical weapons; and doing it safely and efficiently.”
Conrad Whyne, CMA Deputy Director added, “The Army’s hard work and dedication is once again impeccable. The people at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, Deseret Chemical Depot, TOCDF and UMCDF have been outstanding in eliminating the last of the VX spray tanks. This is a major accomplishment and an important milestone for CMA and for the country.”
The TMU-28 VX nerve agent spray tanks were bulk agent containers designed to distribute the liquid agent in an aerosol form—as a fog or mist—from an aircraft onto battlefields. They were constructed with four major components: the agent container, aircraft suspension system, tail cone section and dissemination nozzle. Each tank could hold up to 160 gallons of VX nerve agent.
The U.S. military never used the VX spray tanks, or any other chemical weapons, in combat.
Mr. Ormond stated, “CMA is committed to the continued safe destruction of the remaining U.S. Stockpile—safe for our workers, the public and the environment. We are doing it right!”
(Wired)
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Reducing our nukes and our other weapons stockpiles must bring smiles to the faces of our enemies…especially China.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:37 pmWe really shouldn’t fight with nerve agent anyway, but even with chemical and tactical nuke reductions, we still make the best weapons in the business and everyone knows this. I’m proud of the statement made here, even if only a few people actually hear or pay attention to it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 pmOne more thing. Unilateral disarmament is just another term for global gun control. Taking guns away from the good guys emboldens and empowers thae criminals. Strategic unilateral disarmament in time of war is strategic suicide.
Peace thru stength is what kept our enemies at bay for 50 years. Peace thru disarmament will not have the same effect.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:37 pmI’ll bet nerve gas control will work about as good a gun control does. the chinese used to give these kinds of chemical weapons to the Pathet lao, in Laos after the fall of South Vietnam. And no one reported it for decades. by then no one gave a shit. Chem. weapons… here to stay. They will be use by anyone who can get away with it, in other words by anyone who the left can enable.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 pmI don’t see anything wrong with this myself. We don’t need chemical weapons when we have the most advanced nuclear weapons available. They’re both MAD-type weapons and would invite an overwhelming response. Same for biological weapons. If someone was dumb enough to use a chem/bio agent against the US we wouldn’t respond with anything short of something measured in hundreds of kilotons.
As I see it, chem/bio weapons are more easily “lost” and easier to proliferate. It is a good idea to remove these items from the stockpile and replace them with sophisticated nuclear weapons. Last I checked, we were getting back into the business of designing new nukes anyway
Now, what DOES piss me off is the removal of the Peacekeeper from our arsenal
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm@Dan ….We have no need for it because in reality it’s a lesser weopen …. in comparison to what we have
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 pmI Dont like giving up Weapons because other people tell us to get rid of them! I think we need to be smarter with are decisions? And Hopefully stand by are Morals.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 pmFuck the gas, we need to get more nukes, and keep stockpiling them. Since no one else is going to stop, we should not stop. Stay ahead of the game, because the number of enemies we have are growing, and I don’t consider most of our allies to be very stable.
Something should be done to weed out the fucking Chinese spies too. They’ve gotten away with stealing secrets before. They’re most likely still at it.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:04 amCould have disposed of them in Waziristan, killed two birds with one stone.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:06 amWhether we have better weapons than chem-bio is not the issue. The THREAT of using them should always give our enemies pause. That is especially true of the emergence of Russian Stalinism and Chinese power. Get real people.
I say it one more time. It is these very same weapons that helped us win the Cold War. They protected us for 50 years. You don’t give up power for global political expedientcy. That might gain respect in the first world. But not in the second or third worlds. Most especially not in the facist delusion known as Islam.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:29 amFor any of you imam types thinking this is a sign of American weakness or we’ve become a bunch of rubes, you might consider we can cook up worse if the need arises ASAP.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:23 am