The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant is destroying nerve agent munitions from the chemical weapons stockpile stored in Kentucky. Destruction of the M55 rockets containing GB nerve agent began July 6, 2022. Officials from the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program expect the final round in the declared U.S. Chemical Weapons stockpile to be destroyed at the site in July 2023.
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, known as PCAPP, destroyed the chemical weapons stored at Coloradoā€™s U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD). The final round was destroyed June 22, 2023. The following video clips show how projectiles and mortar rounds containing mustard agent were processed inside the main plant and the Static Detonation Chamber, or SDC, complex.
Destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile located in two states has reached the 75% completion mark, with a combined total of more than 2,352 U.S. tons of chemical agent destroyed as of Jan. 14, 2022.
