Dumping phosgene

A 1923 list sets the war reserve CWM at, White Phosphorus 500 tons. Titanium tetrachloride 100 tons. Phosgene 192 tons, Mustard Gas 60 tons. Chlorine 200 tons, Chlorpicrin 40 tons. .. Shell 4 Stokes Mortar, complete 188,000, Livens Projectors 25,000, Shell, L.P. complete 40,000, Cylinders, chemical, portable 25,000, Candles, smoke 75,000, Candles, toxic 15,000, Candles, lachrymatory 25,000, Arsenious oxide 100 tons. .. Sulphur monochloride 2,000 tons. .. Hexochlorethane 100 tons. While this is substantial and frightening, it is considerably less than the material known to have been on hand at the end of the war, particularly the shells and smoke candles. The author believes that the balance was buried or dumped at sea during the years following World War I. 

Commencing on February 3, 1919, the Steamer Elinor was loaded with drums of mustard and phosgene and gas shells at Edgewood. The drum dumping took place offshore from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The boat then made its way up the Atlantic coast to New York, dumping shells along the way. The whole event took several weeks. The log book contains the latitude and longitude of the exact course the ship took. 

Data about the fate of all yperite and lewisite produced in the SU (outside of a known, insignificant amount) is not available. Similarly, there is no information about the fate of the stocks of all hydrogen cyanide and phosgene produced. Irritants (for example, adamsite) excluded from the CWC at the last moment, as well as herbicides not considered within the framework of the CWC at all, are not subject to inspection. Burials of CW carried out from 1946 through January 1, 1977 (land burials) and January 1, 1985 (sea dumping) are also not subject to inspection. 

Within the period of 1945-1949, Great Britain sunk barges with 175,000 tonnes of German CW munitions as well as those of its own at a site located 20 miles to the west of the coast of Ireland. From 1955 to 1957 these operations were continued. Thus, for example, 25,000 tonnes of captured German aerial bombs, filled with tabun, and British bombs and shells with mustard gas and phosgene were dumped at a site located at 56 30 north latitude and 12 west longitude, 250 miles to the west of Coloncey Island (the Internal Hebrides). In addition, as contemporary newspapers reported, in 1965 approximately 1,700 barrels of mustard gas were sunk in the Bay of Biscay at a depth of about 2 km. 

Skagerrak (American dumping) 31,000—39,000 Mustard gas, chloroacetophenone, phosgene, tabun... 

SC Unknown Location 2 1946 Twenty-three barges (barges carried up to 325 tons of chemical warfare agents) loaded with phosgene and Lewisite bombs, German-produced nerve gas bombs, and 1-ton, mustard-gas-fiUed steel containers dumped at Disposal Site Baker off Charleston. 

December 1945 11,000 tons of nerve gas, 4,000 tons of mustard gas, and 66,000 tons of either phosgene or mustard gas dumped depth unknown. 

October-December 1945 An unknown quantity of phosgene and hydrogen cyanide bombs dumped near the resort island of Ischia. 

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