Does the US house chemicals for warfare? Like gasses and nerve agents and stuff?

Question

Book research. I cant find anything but wikipedia articals on the vietnam war and the old USSR's 3rd generation nerve agents.

Answer 1

We have old stockpiles that despite the interference from organizations like Greenpeace and the Sierra club - we are getting rid of.

Funny how the most liberal organizations are the ones who oppose our destroying the stuff.

BTW - the US has adopted a 'never use' policy regarding lethal chemical agents.

Answer 2

I reccomend you read at least the following two books:

Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen, by Eric Croddy

War of Nerves from World War I to al-Qaueda. by Jonathan Tucker

Both give good histories of the American chemical weapons program and the current status of chemical weapons in the United States.

Do yourself a favor and do not use Wikipedia. It can be misleading.

Answer 3

The plan about 25 years ago was to make new binary weapons in which the warhead would contain two stable compounds which were both safe and only after the weapon was fired or dropped would they combine into the chemical weapon. However, the USA never got around to doing it.

What it has now are the old 40+ year old weapons that are in danger of falling apart due to age. The USA is destroying them as quickly as possible due to the risk they will accidently leak.

Should chemical weapons be needed in the future, they are very easy to make. You can talk any standard organo-phosphate insecticide factory and quickly convert it to a nerve agent factory as the two are very similar chemically.

(However, I think the USA has switched its thinking away from chemical weapons to the Neutron Bomb. It does the same thing, does it faster, and you have no clean up after wards. The civilian population if they stay in brick or stone or concrete houses are safe and only the troops on the battle field and in tanks get fried.)

Answer 4

yes--the USA has an extensive BIO research lab at an air force base in IDAHO.

It houses the Chemical and biological weapons created during the cold war.

And also has large incinerators used to destroy the aging stockpiles of those weapons.

As to the amount it keeps on hand or the types of research involved--that is classified for the most extent.

I don't believe the USA actively still produces any of those types of weapons any longer since well before the cold war ended.

Besides--nuclear weapons are more stable and just as good of a deterrent as any Bio or Chemical agent. And generally more acceptable to It's public.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

yes in Umatilla Oregon. that's where the largest stock pile of nerve agent's such as vx gas and mustard gas are stored. they also have incinerators to dispose of the stuff since the u.s. signed a treaty banning the use of chemical and biological warfare. and all the other stock piles around the country will be shipped there to me disposed of.

Answer 7

Yep! Though it's mostly in the process of being destroyed, albeit slowly.

Some of the chemical weapons produced include:
- Tear gas
- Sarin
- Mustard gas
- Phosgene
- LSD
- Tranquilizers
- BZ

Yeah, most of it's being destroyed. No use for it anymore, besides research incase someone else does.

Answer 8

yes i believe its stored in utah somewhere though some was destroyed by treaty

the cdc in atlanta also has all that stuff for research

Answer 9

of course...

Donald Rumsfeld sold alot of it to Saddam in 1983 however...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Saddam_Hussein%26Donald_Rumsfeld_handshake.jpg

The nerve agent and chemicals they dropped on Kuwaiti's were developed, produced, and provided by the United States. Only the intention was that it would only be used on Iran during the Iran/Iraq war. Oops !

Answer 10

o yes we got lots of nasty little treats ...when i went through basic training i got a taste of cs gas and i tell you what that was some **** .. we got better to ..stuff i dont know about