Since opening in December, Russia’s first chemical weapons disposal facility, located in Gorny, has destroyed 190 metric tons of mustard gas agent, Sergei Kiriyenko, chairman of the Russian state commission on chemical disarmament, said today (see GSN, Jan. 22).  Russia hopes to destroy 1 percent of its 40,000-metric-ton chemical weapons arsenal in the first half of this year, he said (Australian Associated Press/Melbourne Herald Sun, Feb. 27).

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