Assessment of explosive destruction technologies for specific munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo chemical agent destruction pilot plants / Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation Technologies, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

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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 chemical weapons currently at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky and the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado. The Army is considering four EDTs for the destruction of chemical weapons: three from private sector vendors, and a fourth, Army-developed explosive destruction system (EDS).

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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