Chemical Weapons Movement: History Compilation

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U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

1987

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Executive Summary

The production of a compilation of movement operations provides a base of data which can be

used or interpreted in many ways. Some are favorable to the Army, and some are not. However,

the Army wishes to show that (1) it has moved large quantities of chemical weapons over many

years with relatively few problems and that (2) the Army has learned lessons from the problems

which is has encountered. The Army also shows in this study that although there have been some

problems associated with the movement of chemical weapons, there has never been a chemical

agent fatality associated with such a move. Most of the incidents catalogued in the study are

minor.