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An M55 rocket containing Sarin being destroyed at Johnston Atoll in 1990. During the 1960s the Army stored many M55s at Black Hills Army Depot. [2] The M55 was also stored at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and in Okinawa, Japan. [2] The rockets in Japan were moved to Johnston Atoll during Operation Red Hat where they were destroyed during the 1990s.
The last munition, an M55 rocket containing GB nerve agent, was destroyed July 7, 2023. It marked the last chemical weapon in the U.S. stockpile. Since 1944, the Army stored 523 short tons (474 t) of nerve agents sarin (GB) and VX and mustard agent in 155mm projectiles, 8-inch projectiles and M55 rockets at BGAD.
On June 30, PCAPP destroyed 75% of the mustard agent stockpiled in chemical weapons at the Pueblo Chemical Depot. [37] On July 9, BGCAPP destroyed M55 rockets containing VX nerve agent for the first time marking the start of the fourth of five destruction campaigns. [38] As of Aug. 13, more than 2,000 U.S. tons of mustard agent was destroyed at ...
The M55 rocket containing VX nerve agent was destroyed Tuesday at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent plant. According to Kentucky officials, the last stockpiles of a deadly Cold War-era chemical agent ...
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Nearly 90% of the one remaining chemical weapon stored at the depot in Madison County has been destroyed. Central Kentucky depot is ‘very close’ to destroying chemical weapon stockpile. What ...
Pine Bluff Arsenal stored 90,409 M55 GB rockets, 19,608 M55 VX rockets, 9,378 M23 VX landmines and 3,705 mustard ton containers. It was also the home for the Binary Chemical Weapons Facility. The facility created one of the two toxic agents that would combine to form sarin .
On 15 February 1969, just one month after the Sheridan's arrival in South Vietnam, an M551 from the 3/4th Cavalry detonated a 25-pound pressure-activated land mine, which ruptured its hull and ignited the combustible-case charges of the 152 mm rounds, resulting in a secondary explosion that destroyed the tank. [31]