"The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels." Brian pointed me to the Daily Press's in depth coverage of this whole issue. http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-chemdumping-stories,1,534800.storygallery?ctrack=1&cset=true Registration is free and only takes a minute or two and is extremely worthwhile. Included at the site are maps of disposal sites (downloadable as pdfs), stories, descriptions of items dumped including nerve and musturd gas, and rather depressing pictures some are below the fold (all from Daily Press). http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/06/munitions_dumping_at_sea.php
And some people (read: corrupt politicians, corporate interest groups, and DoD insiders) still want DoD to remain exempt from environmental regulation and protocol. This is what you get.
No. That you'd even bring up Saddam is silly. Nobody was worried Saddam was going to bury WMDs in the deep sea.
Heh.. and that map just shows you where they dumped weapons. When you factor in all the runoff from weapons that have gone through the US Army's chemical weapons incineration program, then it looks much worse. The way the law was written that ordered the Army to get rid of chemical weapons, combined with the incompetence of the military officials in charge of this program has been a disaster.
Holy Fock!!! I heard about something but didn't realize how widespread it is... Maybe I'm dumb but why wouldn't you do this on land ala land fills...Well, besides the obvious...
Don't people Fish in those areas .. like Tuna Companies Etc? Rocket River Short Term Thinking on the militaries' part
sure do! Hundreds of dolphins washed ashore in Virginia and New Jersey shorelines in 1987 with burns similar to mustard gas exposure. One marine-mammal specialist suspects Army-dumped chemical weapons killed them. (Photo courtesy of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in New Jersey)
I have not let my wife eat any seafood while pregnant - the amount of nasty stuff in fish (especially mercury around here - thanks Alcoa!) is frightening. Considering she is from Louisiana, I have no idea how I pulled that off.
Dont worry: All seafood will run out in 2050, say scientists http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/03/nfish03.xml
