Anniston Depot Destroys All Liquid Sarin Rockets

Workers at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama have completed incineration of rockets filled with liquid sarin nerve agent and are now set to begin destroying gelled sarin rockets, the U.S. Army announced on Monday (see GSN, July 20).

Alabama environmental regulators have not yet approved the Army’s procedures for handling the gelled rockets. 

While they have to be destroyed in a different manner than the liquid rockets, the process is not more dangerous for the gelled sarin rockets, said facility spokesman Mike Abrams.

“We’re not requiring the work force to do anything more dangerous,” Abrams said.

The incinerator is on schedule to complete all rocket and nerve agent destruction at the depot by 2010, according to Army officials (Associated Press/Tuscaloosa News, Aug. 2).

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