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U.S. Promises Kurds Justice for Iraqi Chemical Attack
March 18, 2004Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his aides will face justice for a 1988 chemical attack on Iraqi Kurds, the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq told victims’ families yesterday in Halabja, Reuters reported (see GSN, Jan. 3, 2003).
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Australian Report Warns of Possible Additional WWII-Era Weapons
April 5, 2004Estimates that more than 1,000 World War II-era chemical weapons were dumped off the northeastern coast of Australia might be too low, Australia’s Townsville Bulletin reported today (see GSN, April 22, 2003).
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Mustard Agent Drippings Could Delay Aberdeen Cleanup
April 6, 2004Cleanup of the chemical weapon stockpile at the Aberdeen Proving Ground could be extended beyond a December deadline because of lingering mustard agent residue, the U.S. General Accounting Office said, according to the Daily Record of Baltimore (see GSN, Nov. 26, 2003).
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Army Chemical Weapons Incinerator Has More “Near Misses” of Agent Exposure
April 7, 2004The company destroying U.S. chemical munitions at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah is “regressing back towards pre-July 15, 2002 operational discipline” that forced the facility to shut down for eight months after two workers were exposed to the nerve agent sarin, according to an internal U.S. Army memo reported today by the Salt Lake Tribune (see GSN ...
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Chemical Stockpiles Need Better Monitors, Group Says
April 21, 2004Chemical stockpiles and disposal sites in the United States should use monitors that can detect an agent release in seconds rather than hours, the Chemical Weapons Working Group said yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 6).
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Interim Mustard Airborne Exposure Limits Issued
May 3, 2004The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released new interim recommendations for airborne exposure limits to sulfur mustard agents, according to a notice published in the Federal Register (see GSN, April 23).
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Deseret Depot Investigating Vapor Leak
May 24, 2004Officials are investigating how a small amount of VX nerve agent vapor leaked into a laboratory last week at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah, the Deseret Morning News reported (see GSN, May 4).
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Chinese Workers Receive Medical Care After Exposure to World War II-Era Mustard Agent
May 25, 2004At least nine people in the Chinese city of Qiqihar have received medical treatment after being exposed yesterday to World War II-era mustard gas (see GSN, April 23).
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Army, Contractor Fined $52,000 for VX Release
May 27, 2004The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it fined the Army and a contractor nearly $52,000 for releasing an unknown quantity of VX nerve agent in August 2002 on Johnston Atoll, site of the first U.S. chemical weapons incinerator (see GSN, Nov. 7, 2003).
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Defense Department Estimates on Gulf War Nerve Gas Exposure Flawed, GAO Report States
June 2, 2004Flawed computer modeling led U.S. agencies to conclude there was no connection between potential exposure to chemical weapons by military personnel during the 1991 Gulf War and their subsequent rates of hospitalization and death, the General Accounting Office said yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 4, 2001).
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Umatilla Chemical Depot Lawsuit Continues
June 16, 2004The second phase of a trial for 49 construction workers who sued the U.S. Army after becoming violently ill while working at a chemical weapons incinerator in Oregon opened yesterday, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, May 19).
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Iran Weighs Possibility of Chemical Weapons Charges Against European Countries
July 9, 2004Iran would raise the issue of European support for Iraq’s chemical weapons programs during the Iran-Iraq war in an international tribunal if Europe increases pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities, an Iranian official said Wednesday (see GSN, July 6).
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