Chemical Agent-Destruction Plant

Oh, joy!
Today’s local paper announced a job fair, hiring to go forward with the destruction of military chemical weapons that have been stockpiled in my county.

It refers the reader to the website of Bechtell Parsons:

https://www.bechtelparsonsbgcapp.com/SitePages/Home.aspx

Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass (BPBG) is the systems contractor selected by the Department of Defense’s Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program to design, build, systemize, test, operate and close the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. The Army and the local community expect the systems contractor, BPBG to meet the highest standards of safety, quality, performance, and corporate citizenship.

I guess I’m glad daughter and family have moved away and it may be time to invest in a gas mask.

It may be time to plan an extended visit to your moved-away daughter and family.

I expect this process will take years. Probably silly of me to worry….

Wow! The job is done!

U.S. destroys last of massive chemical weapons stockpile

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/07/us-military-chemical-weapons-stockpile-eliminat...

Of course every small step is to be welcomed, and the destruction of chemical weapons is one such positive step. However it does not appear to be part of a wider culture of reducing weapons which have long-term negative effects on both humans and the environment, although the US position on anti-personnel mines does appear to have improved since 2022. As the USA destroys these chemical weapons, it (and many other countries) continues the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and continues to produce and export cluster munitions which will be killing children and denying access to arable land for decades after they have been deployed, to say nothing of small arms and light weapons.