WMD found, hidden in driveways

As it turns out we didn't need to go to Iraq to find it. For decades the U.S. military secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets — either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels. These WMD’s were dumped along with more than 500 tons of radioactive waste from World War II until 1970’s, after which Congress and international treaty banned the practice. A drop of nerve agent can kill within a minute. When released in the ocean, it lasts up to six weeks, killing every organism it touches before breaking down into its non-lethal chemical components. Mustard gas can be fatal. When exposed to seawater, it forms a concentrated, encrusted gel that lasts for at least five years, rolling around on the ocean floor, killing or contaminating sea life. Fisherman has pulled this encrusted mess up in their nets. The sea-dumped chemical weapons might be slowly leaking from decades of saltwater corrosion, resulting in a time-delayed release of deadly chemicals over the next 100 years and an unforeseeable environmental effect. Steel corrodes at different rates, depending on the water depth, ocean temperature and thickness of the shells. Military ordnance has been found in clamshell driveways in Delaware and Maryland over the past year. Clamshells dredged off the New Jersey coast were chopped up and used throughout the Delmarva Peninsula. So far 318 pieces of ordinance have been recovered including a 75mm shell filled with mustard gas in someone’s driveway. Three bomb disposal technicians from Dover Air Force Base dismantled the shell to see what was in it so investigators could better determine the hazards that all the discovered ordnance posed. The gas burned them. One was hospitalized with large pus-filled blisters on an arm and hand Read more at: Daily Press Special Report by John Bull