U.S. Army Destroys World War I-Era Mustard Shell

Personnel with the U.S. Army’s Nonstockpile Chemical Materiel Program used the Explosive Destruction System to destroy a World War I-era 75 mm mustard shell Friday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the Army announced in a press release today (see GSN, Oct. 7).

State troopers discovered the munition in a clamshell driveway on July 19 near Bridgeville, Del. It was destroyed with a combination of explosives and neutralization inside an airtight containment chamber, according to the statement (U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency release, Nov. 2).

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