United States nerve agent production

For instance, dnring the first Review Conference, the United States mentioned in the general debate that We are most troubled by the activities of Iran, which we believe continnes to seek chemicals, production technology, training, and expertise from abroad. The United States believes Iran already has stockpiled blister, blood, and choking agents. We also beheve it has made some nerve agents. The national statement by the United States also named Sudan as a State Party about whose activities it had concerns. 

The United States began to produce sarin in the early 1950s, and VX in the early 1960s, for potential military use production continued for about a decade.6 The U.S. munitions inventory today contains these two nerve agents in 30- to 45-year-old M55 rockets land mines 105-mm, 155-mm, and 8-in. projectiles 500-lb and 750-lb bombs wet-eye bombs (one of a family of eye bombs, which has liquid chemical [wet] contents) spray tanks and bulk containers.9 These munitions are stored at six depots within the continental United States (CONUS) and one outside the continent the locations of these depots are public knowledge.10 The six CONUS depots are near Tooelle, Utah Umatilla, Oregon Anniston, Alabama Pine Bluff, Arkansas Newport, Indiana and Richmond, Kentucky the seventh depot is on Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean. 

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