Eyeballing Chemical WMD Destruction

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8 August 2006

Eyeballing

Chemical WMD Destruction

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AP FILE - This is a May 1995 file photo of the Tooele Chemical Agent
Disposal Facility at Tooele Army Depot, Utah. Behind the plant are
over 200 bunkers containing 42 percent of the nation's stockpile of
chemical weapons. The cache is scheduled to be incinerated at the
facility over the next seven years, beginning this summer (2001).
(AP Photo/CAMDS Photo, Alan Dobson & Geraldine Lawrence)

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Captions by Associated Press

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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 ** A dust storm blurs the idle Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. The facility is scheduled to fire up the incinerator as early as Aug. 17 to burn 6,208 tons of gooey mustard agent, which congealed over time inside Cold War-era munitions and bulk storage tanks. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 ** Garrett Lawrence monitors the furnace operation in the control room at the Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. It will take six years of continuous burning for an Army depot to finish off destroying the nation's largest stockpile of chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 ** Some of the 48 10-ton empty containers used to transport chemical weapons are shown at the handling building at the Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 ** Various parts of the plant are monitored via closed circuit television at the Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MAY 5-6 -- Only a few of the 17,000 150mm artillery shells containing GB nerve gas remain in one of the igloos used to store the chemical weapons at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah, Monday, April 30, 2001. Over 200 igloos and outside storage facilities house nearly half of the nation's chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 ** Earthen igloos containing chemical weapons whose contents are scheduled to be destroyed are shown Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah. The Army base is gearing up for its final campaign to burn 6,208 tons of gooey mustard agent. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

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Toxic material handlers load M55 rockets filled with the VX nerve agent into onsite container at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Stockton, Utah, Friday, March 28, 2003, for transport to the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. EG&G Defense Materials, a defense contractor fired up its chemical-weapons incinerator Friday, resuming operations for the first time since a maintenance worker was exposed last July to residual amounts of sarin nerve agent. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Chuck Sprague)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MAY 5-6 -- Artillery shells containing GB nerve gas are carefully placed into a steel cask for transport to an incinerator at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah, Monday, April 30, 2001. Crew members enter sealed ground bunkers to retrieve Cold War-era munitions and plug leaks in rusting shells and rockets. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

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Unidentified workers at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) pose next to the 1,000th ton container of GB nerve agent that was destroyed Monday, Nov. 3, 1997, in Tooele, Utah. The current amount of agent tons incinerated at the plant now exceeds 6% at the nation's largest chemical stockpile. (AP Photo/TOCDF/HO)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MAY 5-6 -- A safety vehicle passes a compound filled with 170-gallon containers of mustard and blister agent at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah, Monday, April 30, 2001. At rear, igloos house GB nerve gas and other chemical weapons. There are over 200 igloos at the facility. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

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Steam rises from the pollution abatement system as M55 rockets are incinerated inside at the Army's disposal plant Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996, in Tooele, Utah. The plant will be mothballed when all the chemical weapons are disposed of. The large empty containers at left foreground, will be used to hold the leftover residue from the incinerated rockets. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
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U.S. Army workers prepare pallets of 30 M55 rockets to be transported to the nation's first chemical weapons incinerator at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1996. The incinerator is scheduled to start up Thursday morning. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Chuck Sprague)

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Dennis Stanion, left, and Fred Masfield, both chemical plant operators at the Tooele Army Depot give a demonstation of how 105mm M60 artillery projectiles are handled at the loading area in the CAMDS area of the Depot during a media tour. Both a Soviet and U.S. delegation are touring the Tooele depot so the Soviets can see how the U.S. is dismantling some of its chemical weapons. Projectiles shown contain a simulant, rather than a chemical agent.(AP photo/Eric Risberg)
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A television crew stands in foreground while taping scenes of the Chemical Agents Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS) at the Tooele Army Depot Nov. 19, 1987 at Tooele, Utah. A deegation from the Soviet Union was to visit the depot the next two days to learn how the U.S. is dismantling some of its chemical weapons.(AP Photo/stf/Eric Risberg)

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Stewart Wilson, a chemical plant operator at the Tooele Army Depot, displays a disposable suit used to protect workers in contaminated areas during a media tour Nov.19,1987 outside Salt Lake City. A Soviet delegation will see the suit on display during a tour designed to show how the U.S. is dismantling some of its chemical weapons.(AP photo/Eric Risberg)
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Fifty years worth of chemical weapons lie in bunkers behind a warning sign at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, Thursday, March 21, 1996. The U.S. Army is readying its furnaces at the depot to obliterate 42 percent of the nation's terrifying cache of weapons. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

Captions by Associated Press
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 A dust storm blurs the idle Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. The facility is scheduled to fire up the incinerator as early as Aug. 17 to burn 6,208 tons of gooey mustard agent, which congealed over time inside Cold War-era munitions and bulk storage tanks. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)	ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 Garrett Lawrence monitors the furnace operation in the control room at the Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. It will take six years of continuous burning for an Army depot to finish off destroying the nation's largest stockpile of chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 Some of the 48 10-ton empty containers used to transport chemical weapons are shown at the handling building at the Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)	ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 Various parts of the plant are monitored via closed circuit television at the Deseret Chemical Depot plant Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, in Tooele, Utah. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MAY 5-6 -- Only a few of the 17,000 150mm artillery shells containing GB nerve gas remain in one of the igloos used to store the chemical weapons at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah, Monday, April 30, 2001. Over 200 igloos and outside storage facilities house nearly half of the nation's chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)	ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, AUG. 12-13 Earthen igloos containing chemical weapons whose contents are scheduled to be destroyed are shown Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah. The Army base is gearing up for its final campaign to burn 6,208 tons of gooey mustard agent. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Toxic material handlers load M55 rockets filled with the VX nerve agent into onsite container at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Stockton, Utah, Friday, March 28, 2003, for transport to the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. EG&G Defense Materials, a defense contractor fired up its chemical-weapons incinerator Friday, resuming operations for the first time since a maintenance worker was exposed last July to residual amounts of sarin nerve agent. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Chuck Sprague)	ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MAY 5-6 -- Artillery shells containing GB nerve gas are carefully placed into a steel cask for transport to an incinerator at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah, Monday, April 30, 2001. Crew members enter sealed ground bunkers to retrieve Cold War-era munitions and plug leaks in rusting shells and rockets. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Unidentified workers at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) pose next to the 1,000th ton container of GB nerve agent that was destroyed Monday, Nov. 3, 1997, in Tooele, Utah. The current amount of agent tons incinerated at the plant now exceeds 6% at the nation's largest chemical stockpile. (AP Photo/TOCDF/HO)	ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MAY 5-6 -- A safety vehicle passes a compound filled with 170-gallon containers of mustard and blister agent at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele, Utah, Monday, April 30, 2001. At rear, igloos house GB nerve gas and other chemical weapons. There are over 200 igloos at the facility. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Steam rises from the pollution abatement system as M55 rockets are incinerated inside at the Army's disposal plant Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996, in Tooele, Utah. The plant will be mothballed when all the chemical weapons are disposed of. The large empty containers at left foreground, will be used to hold the leftover residue from the incinerated rockets. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)	U.S. Army workers prepare pallets of 30 M55 rockets to be transported to the nation's first chemical weapons incinerator at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1996. The incinerator is scheduled to start up Thursday morning. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Chuck Sprague)
Dennis Stanion, left, and Fred Masfield, both chemical plant operators at the Tooele Army Depot give a demonstation of how 105mm M60 artillery projectiles are handled at the loading area in the CAMDS area of the Depot during a media tour. Both a Soviet and U.S. delegation are touring the Tooele depot so the Soviets can see how the U.S. is dismantling some of its chemical weapons. Projectiles shown contain a simulant, rather than a chemical agent.(AP photo/Eric Risberg)	A television crew stands in foreground while taping scenes of the Chemical Agents Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS) at the Tooele Army Depot Nov. 19, 1987 at Tooele, Utah. A deegation from the Soviet Union was to visit the depot the next two days to learn how the U.S. is dismantling some of its chemical weapons.(AP Photo/stf/Eric Risberg)
Stewart Wilson, a chemical plant operator at the Tooele Army Depot, displays a disposable suit used to protect workers in contaminated areas during a media tour Nov.19,1987 outside Salt Lake City. A Soviet delegation will see the suit on display during a tour designed to show how the U.S. is dismantling some of its chemical weapons.(AP photo/Eric Risberg)	Fifty years worth of chemical weapons lie in bunkers behind a warning sign at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, Thursday, March 21, 1996. The U.S. Army is readying its furnaces at the depot to obliterate 42 percent of the nation's terrifying cache of weapons. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)