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| Behind armed guards in bulletproof booths deep in the Kentucky woods, workers have begun pouring the foundations for a $3-billion complex designed to destroy America's last stockpile of deadly chemical weapons. The aging arsenal at the Blue Grass Army Depot contains 523 tons of liquid VX and sarin -- lethal nerve agents produced during the Cold War -- and mustard, a blister agent that caused horrific casualties in WWI |
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Better Late Than Never
by nightgaunt on Monday, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:14:04 PM
There's a lot of work waiting
by Margaret Bassett on Monday, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:52:34 PM