Anniston Begins Destroying 105 mm Artillery Shells

The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Alabama began Saturday to incinerate 105 mm artillery shells filled with the nerve agent sarin (see GSN, July 18).

The facility has already destroyed the depot’s stockpile of M55 rockets, 8-inch shells and 155 mm shells containing sarin, according to a press release.

Elimination of the 105 mm shells is expected to continue through the year. Work on M55 rockets containing VX nerve agent is set to begin in spring 2006, following a maintenance and retooling period (Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility release, July 25).

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