EPA Fines Army Over Nerve Gas Release

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EPA Fines Army Over Nerve Gas Release

May 26, 8:30 PM (ET)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Army and a contractor were fined nearly $52,000 for releasing a deadly chemical weapon on a wildlife sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean, federal environmental officials announced Wednesday.

An unknown quantity of VX nerve agent was released in August 2002 at a chemical weapons disposal facility on Johnston Atoll, the Environmental Protection Agency's office in San Francisco said. The release occurred when a tray holding remnants of a VX shell was improperly loaded into an incinerator.

Exposure to the agent can cause paralysis and death within minutes, but there were no known exposures or reports of harm to any person or any wildlife, said Dean Higuchi of the EPA.

The atoll, located 825 miles southwest of Honolulu, is a national a bird sanctuary. It also held more than 6 percent of the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons - 412,000 different types of explosives, mustard and nerve agents. Congress ordered the weapons destroyed in 1986.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040527/D82QJD9O7.html

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1. Saddam had the "ultimate weapons of terror"

we should know :puke:

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2. Gee, sorry about passing that nerve gas . . .

Isn't it nice to know there are just piles of this crap sitting around?



http://www.wgoeshome.com

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3. looks like we are drawing a map to our WMD

it seems we are the only ones in the world allowed to have these evildoers WMD....and they were to be destroyed in 1986 but being used in 2002......