Former U.S. Chemical Weapons Production Site Declared Free of Weapons

The U.S. Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado, which once possessed 60 percent of the U.S. chemical weapons production capability, has been declared both free of chemical weapons and the means to produce them, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, April 4, 2002).

The destruction of the production facilities at the site began in the last decade and was recently completed, said Charles Scharmann, program manager for the cleanup of the site. After inspecting the site in October, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons certified that it no longer possesses chemical weapons or production facilities, he said.

“It is a significant milestone for us,” Scharmann said (Robert Weller, Associated Press/Environmental News Network, Jan. 7).

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