Deactivated Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility

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The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility is a chemical weapons incinerator that is located 50 miles east of Birmingham, Alabama, and eight miles west of Anniston. The stockpile at Anniston was maintained on 762 acres in the northeastern portion of the Anniston Army Depot, and held 2,254 tons, or 7.4 percent of the original US stockpile of chemical weapons. Anniston's stockpile consisted of cartridges, projectiles, ton containers, rockets and mines containing the nerve agents GB and VX, and the blister agent HB, more commonly referred to as mustard agent. The last chemical agent was successfully destroyed in September 2011 and the facility is currently (July 2016) being safely being dismantled and nearing completion.

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