Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department's fiscal year 2006 budget request for the chemical weapons destruction program earmarks nearly all of the $1.4 billion on operations and maintenance at operating or constructed destruction plants. The funding strategy gives the United States its best chance of achieving an international treaty mandate to destroy 45 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile by December 2007, DOD says. But citizen activists say it significantly under funds destruction plans at two stockpile sites that...
