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Demilitarization

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Destruction and Disposal

• Chemical Weapons Destruction Complete on Johnston Atoll
  News Release, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, November 30, 2000

• Release of GB at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) on May 8-9, 2000
  Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 2000 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• "Chemical Weapons Disposal: Improvements Needed In Program Accountability and Financial Management"
  U.S. General Accounting Office, NSIAD-00-80, May 2000 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• "The Chemical Demilitarization Program"
  Briefing by Dr. Gloria S. Patton, Deputy Asst. Secretary of the Army, Chemical Demilitarization, to the National Defense Industries Assoc., Crystal City, VA, March 28, 2000 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• "Smallpox Virus Destruction: Why Change Direction?"
  Biodefense Quarterly, Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, June 1999, Vol. 1, No. 1

• Management of Johnston Atoll Transfers to Pacific Air Forces
  News Release, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, October 6, 1999

• "Deliberations Regarding the Destruction of Smallpox Virus: A Historical Review, 1980-1998"
  D.A. Henderson, Working paper, Meeting of a Committee of the Institute of Medicine, November 20, 1998

• "Should This Killer Be Put To Death?"
  Jonathan B. Tucker, Washington Post, November 30, 1998

• Chapter 3: "The Disposal of Surplus Chemical Weapons"
  Maria Bowers, edited by Edward J. Laurance and Herbert Wulf, BICC Brief 3: "Coping with Surplus Weapons: A Priority for Conversion Research and Policy," Bonn International Center for Conversion, March 6, 1998

• Beginning of Elimination of Chemical Weapons at the Tooele Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility
  DoD News Briefing by Captain Michael Doubleday, USN, DASD, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, August 20, 1996

• Interium Assessment of Chemical Demilitarization Program
  News Release, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, May 3, 1996

• U.S. Destroying Chemical Stockpile
  Linda D. Kozaryn, American Forces Information Service, January 25, 1996

• U.S. Chemical Weapons Stockpile Information Declassified
  News Release, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, January 22, 1996,

• "Chemical Weapons Disposal: Issues Related to DOD's Management"
  U.S. General Accounting Office, Testimony, July 13, 1995

• "Chemical Weapons: Stability of the US Stockpile"
  U.S. General Accounting Office, NSIAD-95-67, December 1994 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• Destruction of Chemical Weapons
  Report of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Destruction of Military Toxic Waste, Naaldwijk, The Netherlands, 22-27 May 1994

• Demilitarization of Chemical Weapons
  National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• "Can We Destroy Chemical Weapons Safely?"
  Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Safety standards upheld in chemical weapon disposal facilities and during disposal operations.

• Chemical Agent Fact Sheets
  Fact Sheets on destruction activities, munitions disposal system and Tooele Disposal Facility, Utah Department of Environmental Quality Section for Chemical Demilitarization

• U.S. Army Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization
  
  • PMCD History of Chemical Disposal
    
  • Storage Site Locations

• U.S. Chemical Weapons Stockpile Storage Sites
  Department of Defense, December 15, 1995

• Destruction Statistics, Virtual Tour of a Destruction Facility and Maps of U.S. and Russian facility locations
  Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project, the Henry L. Stimson Center

• U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM)
  

Demilitarization in Russia

• "Germ of a good idea: Biotrade not bioterror"
  The Spokesman Review (Associated Press), November 16, 2000

• "Biological Weapons: Effort to Reduce Former Soviet Threat Offers Benefits, Poses New Risks"
  U.S. General Accounting Office, NSIAD-00-138, April 2000 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• "Weapons of Mass Destruction: U.S. Efforts to Reduce Threats From the Former Soviet Union"
  GAO Testimony, March 6, 2000 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• "Bioweapons from Russia: Stemming the Flow"
  Jonathan B. Tucker, Issues in Science & Technology, Spring 1999

• "Nuclear Nonproliferation: Concerns With DOE's Efforts to Reduce the Risks Posed by Russia's Unemployed Weapons Scientists"
  U.S. General Accounting Office, RCED-99-54, February 1999 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• "Weapons of Mass Destruction: Effort to Reduce Russian Arsenal May Cost More, Achieve Less Than Planned"
  U.S. General Accounting Officet, NSIAD-99-76, April 1999 (requires Acrobat Reader)

• U.S. Should Restore Funding for Russian Chemical Disarmament
  Op-Ed, Igor Khripunov and Jonathan B. Tucker, Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1999

• Former Soviet Biological Weapons Facilities in Kazakhstan: Past, Present, and Future
  CNS Occasional Paper #1, Gulbarshyn Bozheyeva, Yerlan Kunakbayev, and Dastan Yeleukenov, June 1999

• "Ensuring the Security of Russia's Chemical Weapons: A Lab-to-Lab Partnering Program"
  Kathleen Vogel, Nonproliferation Review, Winter 1999, vol. 6, no. 2

• "Russia's Chemical Weapon's Destruction Way Off Track"
  Environment News Service/Lycos, January 18, 1999

• "Eliminating A Deadly Legacy of the Cold War: Overcoming Obstacles To Russian Chemical Disarmament"
  Monterey-Moscow Study Group on Russian Chemical Disarmament, 1998 Report

• "Wastes of War: Russia's Forgotten Chemical Weapons"
  David Hoffman, Washington Post, August 16, 1998

• "Toxic Archipelago: Preventing Proliferation from the Former Soviet Chemical and Biological Weapons Complexes" and Map of Institutes and Facilities of the Toxic Archipelago
  Amy E. Smithson, The Henry L. Stimson Center, Report No. 32, December 1999

• Viewpoint: Converting Former Soviet Chemical Weapons Plants
  Jonathan B. Tucker, Nonproliferation Review, Fall 1996, vol. 4, no. 1

• Destruction Statistics, Virtual Tour of a Destruction Facility and Maps of U.S. and Russian facility locations
  Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project, the Henry L. Stimson Center

• Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
  U.S. Department of Defense
  • Cooperative Threat Reduction Sites
    U.S. Army Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization

• Declared CW Storage Sites, and Destruction Plan
  Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Last updated: 10/24/2002

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