Assessment of the Army Plan for the Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility (2004) / Chapter Skim
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10 1 Background and Overview Since World War I, the United States has maintained an extensive array of weapons containing chemical agents. Today, as a result of the United States' decision to sign and ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
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BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW 11 German Traktor rockets (GTRs) containing a variety of fills, including nitrogen mustard agent and arsenical-based fills.7 A diagram of the 4.2-in.
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12 ASSESSMENT OF THE ARMY PLAN FOR THE PINE BLUFF NON-STOCKPILE FACILITY TABLE 1-1 Inventory of Non-Stockpile Items at the Pine Bluff Arsenal No. Containing a Chemical(s)
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BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW 13 overall weight is 79 lb, including 7 to 10 lb of chemical fill, depending on fill type. The burster tube, which is threaded into the aft end, contains 3.4 lb of a mixture of pentaerythritol tetranitrate/wax (95/5)
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14 ASSESSMENT OF THE ARMY PLAN FOR THE PINE BLUFF NON-STOCKPILE FACILITY National Research Council report (NRC, 1999) and is not discussed further here.
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BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW 15 mortars and GTR warheads that are nonexplosive will be accessed at a projectile washout system, where a liquid jet will rinse the fill contents out of the munition body. Following overnight soaking in a heel-dissolving10 tank, munition bodies containing energetics will be detonated in a detonation chamber, and those without energetics will be cut prior to final surface decontamination.
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16 ASSESSMENT OF THE ARMY PLAN FOR THE PINE BLUFF NON-STOCKPILE FACILITY ing to other non-stockpile activities at PBA, such as destruction of the binary precursor agents DF and QL, destruction of the former binary agent production facility, and the empty ton container cut-and-clean operations, are beyond the scope of the study. Two nontechnical issues are expected to strongly affect the operational schedule for PBNSF: (1)
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