[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: "Non-Stockpile" treaty pledge met

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army achieves major program milestone
Non-Stockpile mission destroys inventory
of recovered chemical warfare materiel to date

U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency
April 19, 2010

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - Today, the U.S. Army Chemical Materials 
Agency (CMA) announced that it completed its mission to destroy all 
non-stockpile materiel declared when the United States entered into the 
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty mandating the 
destruction of our Nation’s chemical warfare.

This milestone also marks the destruction of the largest inventory of 
recovered chemical warfare materiel (RCWM) to date - more than 1,200 
munitions - with a stellar safety record.

CMA's U.S. Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project (NSCMP) began 
operations at the Pine Bluff Explosive Destruction System (PBEDS), 
located at Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA), Ark., in June 2006 to destroy 
items, such as 4.2-inch mortars and German Traktor rockets captured 
during World War II. PBEDS completed destruction operations on April 14.

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For the entire statement, see
http://www.cma.army.mil/pbeds.aspx?source=homepagehighlight

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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>
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