Assessment of explosive destruction technologies for specific munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo chemical agent destruction pilot plants
By: Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation Technologies, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation Technologies.; National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Army Science and Technology.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780309126830
Subjects: Chemical weapons disposal -- Kentucky -- Richmond; Chemical weapons disposal -- Colorado -- Pueblo
Description: The Army's ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate explosive destruction technologies (EDTs) to augment the main technologies to be used to destroy the chemical weapons currently at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky and the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado. The Army is considering four EDTs for the destruction of chemical weapons: three from private sector vendors, and a fourth, Army-developed explosive destruction system (EDS).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.