Assessment of explosive destruction technologies for specific munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo chemical agent destruction pilot plants /

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The Army's ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate explosive destruction technologies (EDTs) to augment the main technologies to be used to destroy the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation Technologies, National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Army Science and Technology
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Chemical weapons disposal > Kentucky > Richmond.
Chemical weapons disposal > Colorado > Pueblo.
Armes chimiques > Élimination > Kentucky > Richmond.
Armes chimiques > Élimination > Colorado > Pueblo.
HISTORY > Military > Biological & Chemical Warfare.
Chemical weapons disposal
Colorado > Pueblo
Kentucky > Richmond
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Evaluation factors specific to ACWA sites application
  • Current status of explosive destruction technologies
  • Rating of explosive destruction technologies for proposed BGCAPP and PCAPP applications
  • Appendix A. Chapter 4 from the 2006 NRC report "Review of international technologies for destruction of recovered chemical warfare materiel"
  • Appendix B. Committee meetings and site visits
  • Appendix C. Biographical sketches of Committee members.

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