Getting your player ready...
PUEBLO — The beginning of the end came with a heavily muffled bang.
“It’s more a whumph,” said Pueblo Chemical Depot worker Jonathan Miller, who helped set off the explosive charge last week to destroy the first three shells of what will be a multiyear effort to rid Colorado of nearly 800,000 mustard gas rounds.
The lack of a big bang, though, didn’t disappoint. Workers say after years of delays they’re happy the end of the Cold War-era chemical weapon stockpile is underway.
“We’re working ourselves out of a job,” depot worker George Roberts said with a smile.
.
