Mustard Gas Halts Weapons Site Dig
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By AP  TULALIP   The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has halted excavation at an old chemical weapons storage site on the Tulalip Indian Reservation after four workers reportedly suffered effects from mustard gas buried there 60 years ago.   The four were briefly hospitalized Aug.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 8--The Army Corps of Engineers this week suspended a wetlands permit for the Rock Creek and Big Hurrah gold mines under construction near Nome.
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Hundreds of tonnes of powerful explosives that could be used in conventional missiles, or as a trigger for nuclear devices, has disappeared from a military installation in Iraq left unguarded by the US military, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA
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Nearly 400 tonnes of conventional explosives that could be used in missiles has disappeared from an arms depot in Iraq that was not being patrolled, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 -- The Utah coal mine where three rescuers were killed and six men remained trapped will cease operations when the flagging effort to locate the missing is finally called off, mine operator Robert E. Murray said Wednesday. The statement by the combative chief executive of Mur...
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A British investigation into a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia was stopped because Riyadh threatened to withdraw all co-operation on security and intelligence, a newspaper reported.
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HUNDREDS of tonnes of high explosives that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons have vanished in Iraq since the United States and Britain invaded, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said yesterday.
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BEIJING - A Chinese city has halted construction of a chemical plant after residents sent more than 1 million mobile phone text messages protesting possible pollution dangers, news reports said Thursday.  The $1.4 billion facility being built by Tenglong Aromatic PX (Xiamen) Co.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are missing from the Al Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad that was supposed to be under American military control.
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Libya, citing cost and liability concerns, has informed the United States of plans to back out of a contract to destroy its mustard gas stocks as promised under a landmark 2003 agreement, U.S. officials said.
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Disputes between Russia and the United States over funding and lucrative contracts are hampering an international effort to destroy the world's largest chemical weapons arsenal, experts said Wednesday.
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Nearly 380 tons of explosives are  missing from a site near Baghdad that was part of Saddam  Hussein's dismantled atom bomb program but was never secured by  the U.S. military, the United Nations said Monday.
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The Pentagon intervenes in the row over missing Iraqi explosives, saying its soldiers did remove some material from the site.
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A young RAF engineer who took part in secret nerve gas tests 51 years ago was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has decided. Ronald Maddison, from Consett, County Durham, died after having drops of Sarin
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By Thomas J. Prohaska  The Army and the Department of Homeland Security have been reviewing security at the site where nuclear waste from the World War II atomic bomb project is buried, it was disclosed Saturday at a public information session here.
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Operations at the Warren Grove firing range were temporarily suspended Friday after an F-16 fighter jet with the District of Columbia Air National Guard accidentally fired about 25 training
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POISONOUS fumes were preventing rescuers from reaching 141 miners trapped underground at a coalmine in northern China yesterday after an explosion that killed 25 of their colleagues.