deadliness below-wmd's thrown into sea years ago-army doesn't know

[niyad]

where they all are.

The Deadliness Below
Weapons of mass destruction thrown into the sea years ago present danger now - and the Army doesn't know where they all are

by John M.R. Bull

In the summer of 2004, a clam-dredging operation off New Jersey pulled up an old artillery shell.


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Bomb disposal technicians from Dover Air Force Base, Del., were brought in to dismantle it. Three of them were injured - one hospitalized with large pus-filled blisters on an arm and hand.

The shell was filled with mustard gas in solid form.

What was long feared by the few military officials in the know had come to pass: Chemical weapons that the Army dumped at sea decades ago finally ended up on shore in the United States.

It's long been known that some chemical weapons went into the ocean, but records obtained by the Daily Press show that the previously classified weapons-dumping program was far more extensive than ever suspected.

The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1030-09.htm

[DemInDistress]

1. I read that story earlier very telling and

very troubling.How many other poisons have been deep-sixed that we
dont know about? Can we trust gov't numbers? I dont think so,its now
more than possible dolphins,whales that beach themselves could have
encountered those poisons.What does our future hold with these poisons
ready to release massive amounts of misery upon us? It was a disturbing article has cause for concern..

edit for spelling

[bbgrunt]

2. we have lost our souls to the profit motive

It is time for cosmic justice.

[BeHereNow]

3. Okay, I am going to puke.

This is SO disturbing.
Just reading about it makes me physically ill.
And WHAT did they think would happen when
the containers developed leaks?
Holy shit.
Talk about STUPID.
BHN