From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:35:56 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Spring Valley (DC) excavation resumes |
CHEMICAL WEAPONS Digging Resumes Steve Vogel Washington Post (DC) January 24, 2008 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will resume its excavation today for buried chemical weapons in the Spring Valley neighborhood in Northwest Washington, officials said yesterday. The digging for the weapons, left over from World War I testing at American University, was halted last month after the discovery of a 75mm arsine shell that was suspected to have an explosive charge. The Army said the chances of such a shell exploding are "extremely low" because it lacks a fuse. ... For the entire article, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303845.html?sub=AR -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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