Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions

The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established to destroy the nation's stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons.

Since 1990. the Army has been testing a baseline incineration technology at Johnston Island in the southern Pacific Ocean.

Under the planned disposal program, this technology will be imported in the mid- to late 1990's to continental United States disposal facilities to be constructed at eight stockpile storage sites.;In early 1992, the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies was formed by the N RC to investigate potential alternative to the baseline technology.

Its book addresses the use of alternative destruction technologies to replace partly or wholly, or to be used in addition to, the baseline technology.

The book will consider principal technologies that might be applied to the disposal program, strategies that might be used to manage the stockpile, and combinations of technologies that might be employed.