OPCW Team Conducts Inspections at Anniston

A team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived Tuesday at the Anniston Army Depot for its 10th  inspection of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile at the Alabama facility, the U.S. Army announced (see GSN, Oct. 15).

The organization is charged with verifying compliance with the international Chemical Weapons Convention, under which member states pledge to destroy their chemical weapons stockpiles. 

The last OPCW inspection at Anniston occurred in May. Inspectors during this visit are verifying that accurate records of munitions are being kept after more than a year of transporting weapons to the depot’s chemical agent disposal facility for destruction, according to the Army (U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency release, Oct. 26).

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