Chemical weapons disposal

The CAC provides a vital link between the Pueblo community and the Army by providing a forum for exchanging information about chemical weapons disposal. It exists to represent community interests (U.S. Army, 2000e). The nine CAC members are appointed by and serve terms at the governor s discretion. They include local business people and citizens, a labor leader, an environmentalist, and a representative of Colorado DPHE a county commissioner presides. The CAC is funded by DoD but is independent of Army influence (U.S. Army, 2000e). 

Averre, Derek, and Igor Khripunov, Chemical Weapons Disposal Russia Tries Again, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 57, No. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 57-63. 

The role that the public has assumed - neither enshrined in the treaty documentation nor anticipated by the States Parties is another unique characteristic of the CWC. Here again, the Convention is evolutionary compared with earlier treaties and international agreements. Chemical weapons disposal has emerged as a vivid example of how local environmental justice concerns can intersect with global disarmament and nonproliferation efforts. With no formal inducement, the public has become a player in the execution of the CWC-mandated destruction of chemical weapons. What lessons can be learned from the public response and how... 

In this domain of non-proliferation and disarmament, as in many others, the majority of available information originates in the United States. Chemical weapons destruction programmes in other countries will be addressed but with less depth and fewer examples. Although much of the US controversy revolves around issues of the risk associated with incineration versus non-incineration disposal technologies, my intention in this chapter is not to make a new technical assessment of the two. I shall address how technical and scientific assessments regarding chemical weapons disposal have been communicated, viewed and utilized by the pubhc. 

What role is the Chemical Weapons Convention portrayed as playing in the ongoing wrangling over chemical weapons destruction Public policy experts seem to focus on the international treaty as a motivational force driving chemical weapons disposal. " In the media, there is an underlying effort to impute culpability for the need to destroy the US chemical weapons stockpile to international treaties, often without recognizing that the weapons were declared obsolete by the US Department of Defense 10 years before the CWC was signed and 15 years before it came... 

KilaU Alailima, John Capillo, Elizabeth Crowe and Melissa Tuckey, Chemical Weapons Disposal The Citizens Solution to the Costly Mistake of Incineration (Berea, KY Kentucky Environmental Foundation, 28 March 1995), available at [Pg.145]

FIGURE 53.1. Detection and identification in chemical terrorism countermeasure and chemical weapon disposal. 

When considering toxicity manifestation time and vapor dispersion, the detection sensitivity for vapor concentration is one hundredth of LCtso within 1 min. In the case of GB, this required detection sensitivity is 0.15 mg/m, and at this level there is no odor and humans show no signs of toxicity. In the chemical weapon disposal situation, because the workers stay in one place for a long time, the time weighted average (TWA) values are the monitoring target for allowed operational conditions. These TWA values are approximately 1/100,000 of LCtso. The desired alarm time is to be less than several minutes. There is a trade-off relationship between LOD, alarm time, detection accuracy and... 

Halbrook, R.S., Guzman, C.E., Wilkinson, K.J., Watson, A.P., Mimro, N.B., Shugart, L.R. (1992). Rapid whole-blood cholinesterase assay with potential use for biological monitoring during chemical weapons disposal. J. Assoc. Off. Anal. Chem. Int. 75 549-53. 

Formed in 1991, CWWG s original focus was opposition to the incineration of chemical warfare materiel, but in a document entitled International Citizens Accord on Chemical Weapons Disposal, it opposed the transport of stockpile munitions If, as a last resort, transportation of chemical weapons must be undertaken, it should be only for final treatment and/or disposal, after necessary stabilization, with the consent of affected communities (Crow et al., 1992). While the accord does not specifically address secondary wastes, CWWG says it intends to cover what it considers to be agent-contaminated wastes. Its stated views on secondary wastes are essentially the same as those of the CDCAB as a whole (see also Box 5-2). 

Crow, J., A. Dooley, R. Vincent, M. Joyner. R. Zangerl, K. Flood, C. Williams, T. Lampkin, C. King, S. Brown. P. Conroy, G. Liptak, H. Burgess, M. Hudson, J. Capillo, E. Weyhrauch. L. Koplovitz, S. Fomichov, S. Hawkins, and C. Hinds. 1992. The International Citizens Accord on Chemical Weapons Disposal, November. Berea, Ky. Chemical Weapons Working Group. 

Chemical Weapons Disposal, Plans for Nonstockpile Chemical Warfare... 

Chemical Weapons Disposal, Issues Related to DOD s Management,... 

Chemical weapons disposal. 2. Explosive ordnance disposal. 3. 

Comprehensive Analysis of the Danger of Captured German Chemical Weapons Disposed of in the Baltic Sea During the Post-War Period, Research Report, Moscow, Military Unit No 64518, 1992. 

Judith A. Bradbury, technical manager at Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is currently evaluating public involvement programs across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex. She previously completed a series of evaluations of the effectiveness of DOE s 12 site-specific advisory boards and led an assessment of community concerns about incineration and perspectives on the U.S. Army Chemical Weapons Disposal Program. Dr. Bradbury is a member of the Risk Assessment and Policy Association. She earned a B.S. in sociology from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in public affairs from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. 

US GAO, Chemical Weapons. Obstacles to the Army s Plan to Destroy Obsolete U.S. Stockpile, GAO/NSIAD-90-155 (May 1990), pp.3-4, 20-7 A. Pasztor, Destruction of U.S., Soviet Stockpiles of Chemical Arms Is Many Years Away, The Wall Street Journal, 1 June 1990, p.A12 L.R. Ember, Chemical Weapons Disposal Daunting Challenges Still Ahead, C ENNews, vol.68, no.33 (13 August 1990), pp.9-19. 

Extensions of Remarks, Congressional Record, 1 June 1990, p.E1836 Ember, Chemical Weapons Disposal Daunting Challenges Still Ahead , pp. 18-19. 

Keywords Agents, Chemical warfare. Chemical weapons. Disposal, History, Physiological effects. Stockpiling, Use. 

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