U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity Timeline

U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity Timeline

IN U.S. CHEMICAL WEAPONS HISTORY

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In the 1960s and before, the United States developed chemical weapons in response to Germany's use of them against Allied soldiers during World War I. The military securely stores these weapons at U.S. military installations at home and abroad. Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, produces mustard and phosgene, but the arsenal is not large enough to store the agent. New installations are constructed in Huntsville, Alabama; Denver, Colorado; Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Tooele, and Utah.

After World War II ends, the United States produces nerve agents GB (sarin) at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado, and VX in Newport, Indiana. During the 1960s, the U.S. Army destroys chemical weapons using sea disposal, open-pit burning and land burial. In 1969, the National Academy of Sciences recommends sea disposal of chemical weapons be avoided; in November, President Richard Nixon halts U.S. production of chemical weapons.

U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity Timeline

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The United States completes transferring chemical munitions from Japan to Johnston Island, located about 800 miles from Hawaii, in September. (Photo depicting stored chemical weapons)

1979 1980

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The U.S. Army forms the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) Program Manager for Demilitarization of Chemical Materiel, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. As part of Project Eagle, U.S. Army incinerates six million pounds of mustard agent and neutralizes eight million pounds of nerve agent GB at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado, through 1976.

U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity Timeline

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Program Manager for Demilitarization of Chemical Materiel relocates to Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland (now Aberdeen Proving Ground-South).

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Organizational name changed to Department of the Army, Project Manager for Chemical Demilitarization and Installation Restoration.

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