Military Dumping of Chemical Weapons in the Ocean


	Military Dumping of Chemical Weapons in the Ocean

Kelika

8-4-2009 11:02 AM

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8-5-2009 3:09 PM

mcsmithblack

Oh boy, just wait 'til those birds come home to roost.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/31c6bca2-c71b-438d-bbdc-17208951278e/FBBF169A-137C-4450-83FE-26CA944C9C72/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html" href="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.starbulletin.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html"><P class="storytext">Off Oahu there were three areas where chemical weapons were thrown overboard -- two off Pearl Harbor. One is 10 miles south of Pearl Harbor where the ocean depth is 10,000 feet; another is five miles south of Pearl Harbor at a depth of 1,000 to 1,500 feet. The third is believed to be 10 miles west of Waianae where the depth is 10,000 feet.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html"><P class="storytext">About 2,000 conventional munitions -- weapons that are not nuclear, chemical or biological -- were dumped in the shallow waters off Waianae known as Ordnance Reef.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html"><P class="storytext">The Army believes 16,000 M47-A2 bombs, containing 598 tons of mustard gas, were dumped there in 1944.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html"><P class="storytext">The Army says that between 1932 and 1944 chemical weapons such as blister agents lewisite and mustard gas and blood agents hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen chloride were disposed in the area.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html"><P class="storytext">There are no current plans to remove these canisters.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090804_Army_is_studying_effects_of_dumping_live_ammo_in_sea.html"><P class="storytext">Besides Hawaii, there were chemical weapons sea disposal sites in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FBBF169A-137C-4450-83FE-26CA944C9C72/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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