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STOCKTON, Utah — The U.S. Army will have destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile — a witches’ brew of toxins and blister and blood agents that accumulated through the Cold War.
The Army’s Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah’s west desert burned its last hard weapons in a 1,500-degree furnace Wednesday — projectiles that contained mustard agent, which can produce painful skin blisters. The depot expects to complete the job by the weekend when it incinerates bulk supplies of Lewisite, a powerful skin, eye and lung irritant.
Denver Post wire services
