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Weapons of Mass Distraction
U.S. arms dealing leads Project Censored’s list of the Top 10 underreported stories of 1997
10. Army’s plan to burn nerve gas threatens Columbia River Basin.
Mark Brown and Karyn Jones, "Army Plan To Burn Surplus Nerve Gas Stockpile," Earth First! Journal, March 1997. Despite widespread opposition from citizens groups, health experts, environmental organizations and Native Americans, last year the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission gave the U.S. Army the green light to build a chemical-weapons incineration facility near Hermiston, Oregon. Some of the toxins to be burned, Brown and Jones reported, include nerve gas, mustard agent, dioxins, furans, chloromethane, vinyl chloride, PCBs, lead and arsenic. The health risks such chemicals pose include cancer, birth defects, reproductive dysfunction, immune-system disorders and neurological damage, the story warned. Courtesy of the San Francisco Bay Guardian
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