The U.S. Army announced yesterday that it has decided to delay the destruction of VX nerve agent housed at the Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, July 16).

The Army had originally planned to begin disposing of the VX stored at the depot in October.  The facility being built to neutralize the nerve agent, however, is not expected to be ready until at least January, Army project manager Jeff Brubaker said (Associated Press, Aug. 14).

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