Chemical weapons material stored in Indiana

[Rich Hunt]

NEWPORT, Ind. -- Like the house guest who never leaves, VX nerve agent, one of the last and deadliest vestiges of the Cold War, sits in thick steel storage tubes amid western Indiana's vast green fields of corn and soybeans.

Maybe the more than 1,200 tons of dangerous chemical weapons material will be moved out of this pastoral setting, as the Army has been trying to do for years. And maybe it won't.

According to analyst George Delgado, who testified this week before the federal Base Closure and Realignment Commission, it could be as late as 2012 before all the VX is destroyed or neutralized.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0508270055aug27,1,147119.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Yikes.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

1. I have a friend who worked at that site for several years for the

Corp of Engineers and the subcontractors who are building it. It is way-y-y-y-y-y over budget (cost plus contract - sweet deal if you can get one) and is rife with pork, political payback and cronyism. It will be a miracle if they ever finish the structure. And when they are through? The residents get to live with VX gas among the corn fields.

[hippiechick]

2. If I recall correctly, there was an 'accident' a couple months ago ..

... not to mention, the area is indirectly on the fault line (I don't recall the geographic name) ...

:scared: Makin' Murca safe from domestic terra, eh ?? :scared: