(Indiana) Depot workers find 20 gallons of VX

[Newsjock]

http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/212392-6086-103.html

Associated Press
January 26, 2005
 
NEWPORT, Ind. -- Workers dismantling a plant where the deadly VX nerve agent was manufactured in the 1960s stumbled onto a tank last week filled with 20 gallons of the chemical, Army officials said.

None of the workers who found the tank Jan. 19 was exposed, and no VX was released, said Lt. Col. Scott Kimmell, commander of the Newport Chemical Depot.

... The VX, which has the consistency of mineral oil, was transferred into an approved container and moved to concrete bunkers at the depot, where 1,269 tons of VX are stored.

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Good Times

:eyes:

[Tsiyu]

2. Lord only knows what "toys" past boys have left us

buried in the future....

[Wilms]

3. Oh that's just great.

They tell everyone where to get 1,296 tons plus 20 gallons of the stuff.

BTW, how much VX was found in Iraq. :grr:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. A thimble full, but if you use the Rovian metric conversion tables it

comes out to about enough to destroy an entire Amurkan city. :)

[leveymg]

4. Finally, They Found WMD?

Too bad it didn't happen before the election, when it would have helped poor Mr. Bush regain his credibility.

Oops -

[LynnTheDem]

8. How would finding VX in AMERICA have helped bush?

[KDLarsen]

9. They could have pushed the "Saddam smuggled it out" line

.. I suppose some people would fall for it in the end.

[LynnTheDem]

11. rotfl!!!

Dang, never thoughta that one! They should have used this for that;

US finds evidence of WMD at last - buried in a field in Maryland

The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that its investigators had finally unearthed evidence of weapons of mass destruction, including 100 vials of anthrax and other dangerous bacteria.

The bad news was that the stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer than 50 miles from Washington, near Fort Detrick in the Maryland countryside.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,965319,00.html

heh :D

[leveymg]

13. My Point Exactly. n/t

[R Hickey]

5. So what happens when a terrorist trys to blow up 1,269 tons of VX?

What kind of mess would that make? Is that enough VX to kill off the entire planet, or just Newport, Indiana?

[Wilms]

6. The 1,269 tons of VX kill off the entire planet, except Newport, Indiana

That's what the other 20 gallons is for.

[truthisfreedom]

7. who cares. we drink that stuff for breakfast.

apparently.

[eleonora]

10. 2 things I don't like

I live in IN right now and knowing there's 1.269 tons of VX near by is shall we say, unnerving.

Now terrorists know where to go to find it, huh?

So, what country is going to go pre-emptive on us once we start bombing the world?

[BiggJawn]

14. They've known for YEARS.

This isn't the first time Newport has been in the news.