2011 NBC WMD CBRN Weapons and Terrorism: Guide to the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA), Storage and Elimination of America's Chemical Weapons Stockpile (CD-ROM)

This electronic book on CD-ROM provides a guide to the work of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA), which handles the storage and elimination of America's chemical weapons stockpile. CMA is based at the Edgewood area of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. CMA site operations are carried out at the stockpile locations. Three sites have completed the disposal of weapons: Aberdeen, Maryland; Newport, Indiana; and Johnston Atoll. Active sites include Blue Grass, Kentucky; Anniston, Alabama; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Pueblo, Colorado; Tooele, Utah; and Umatilla, Oregon. The agency's headquarters' management team, as well as scientific, communications and support staff are based at the Edgewood Area of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, while other dedicated managers and staff fulfill the agency's mission from weapons storage and disposal at locations across the country.Destruction The Project Manager Chemical Stockpile Elimination manages the safe treatment and disposal of chemical agents and weapons using incineration and neutralization technologies. Incineration technology is being used at Anniston Army Depot, AL; Pine Bluff Arsenal, AR; Umatilla Chemical Depot, OR; and Deseret Chemical Depot, UT. Disposal operations using neutralization technology were completed in February 2006 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, facility - eliminating more than five percent of the nation s chemical agent inventory. The disposal facility is now closed. The Newport Chemical Depot, IN, facility completed chemical stockpile disposal operations in August 2008 eliminating four percent of the nation s chemical agent inventory. Closure operations at the site are now underway. In 2000, CMA successfully completed destruction of all chemical weapons formerly stored at Johnston Island, in the Pacific Ocean. The Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project (NSCMP) leads the nation in the development and utilization of advance technology to safely eliminate America's remaining non-stockpile chemical materiel in a safe, environmentally sound and cost-effective manner. NSCMP researches and develops treatment options and destruction plans that comply with all federal, state and local regulations and encourage public participation in its activities. CMA is complying with in the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty which the United States and more than 150 other nations have signed as their pledge to rid the world of chemical weapons. Congress established the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program in 1997 to test and demonstrate at least two alternative technologies to the baseline incineration process for the demilitarization of assembled chemical weapons. In Pueblo, CO neutralization followed by biotreatment will be used to destroy the Pueblo stockpile and in Blue Grass, KY neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation is being implemented. Contract teams at both Colorado and Kentucky are currently designing pilot test facilities which will ultimately lead to the safe destruction of chemical weapons. CMA is also responsible for safe storage of the nation's chemical weapon materiels pending its ultimate destruction. CMA manages a National Inventory Control Point and National Maintenance Point to ensure the stockpile is maintained safely during its remaining storage life.