Rocket munitions, nerve agent filled

The technology developed for demilitarization of nerve agent filled rocket munitions has also been exploited in the demilitarization of conventional artillery projectiles. 

In fiscal year 1981, the Army planned to build a disposal facility on Johnston Island, which would use the reverse assembly and incineration process to destroy chemical weapons stored on the island. Although the Army designed the Johnston disposal facility to destroy all types of munitions, it initially planned to equip the facility to destroy only one type of chemical munitions—the M55 rocket. Determining that the M55 rockets were in poor condition and were no longer militarily useful, the Army established an M55 rocket disposal program to destroy the nerve-agent-filled rockets stored at Johnston Island and five chemical storage sites in the continental United States. 

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