2014 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:53:42 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Clearing World War II munitions from the Pacific Islands
 
[This looks like an impressive program. I suggest that it could be even better if technologies developed for domestic range clearance could be utilized abroad. - LS]

The Pacific Islands: U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction Programs Reduce Threats from World War II-era Munitions

Fact Sheet
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
December 17, 2014

For more than 70 years, communities across the islands of the South Pacific have faced hidden hazards from buried and abandoned bombs, mortars, artillery shells, and unexploded ordnance dating back to World War II. Since 2009, the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM/ WRA) has invested more than $5.6 million in support of conventional weapons destruction programs in the Pacific Islands. Old and degrading munitions pose a safety hazard as well as an environmental challenge. U.S. efforts reduce the humanitarian impact of abandoned World War II-era munitions caches across the region by funding survey and clearance operations as well as training missions.


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For the entire fact sheet, see
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/12/235367.htm

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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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