Russian Chemical Weapons Disposal Plant Opens Lewisite Section

The Russian chemical weapons disposal facility in the city of Gorny has begun destroying lewisite, RIA Novosti reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 18). The Gorny facility’s stockpile of more than 250 tons of the chemical weapons agent is expected to be destroyed by the end of 2005 (Alexander Lyogky, RIA Novosti, Nov. 24).

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