ARMY AL&T


The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA)—Making Chemical Weapons History


One Milestone at a Time Argie Sarantinos-Perrin


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he CMA leads the world in chemical weapons destruction and has many reasons to celebrate. In April 2009, CMA marked the elimination of 60 percent of the original U.S. chemical weapons


stockpile. In August 2009, CMA’s first modern, industrial scale chemical demilitarization facility, the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS), obtained clean closure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), marking the end of the Army’s environmental responsibility on the atoll. And in October 2009, CMA marked the safe elimination of more than 2 million individual munitions since the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) entered into force in 1997.


Workers at NECDF move the last TC using a special lift boom on a forklift. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of CMA.)


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APRIL –JUNE 2010


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