Defense Environment Alert -- A National Academies of Sciences panel says the Army should consider using detonation-type technologies now being employed abroad to destroy the military's large caches of buried non-stockpile chemical weapons. On Nov. 16, a National Research Council (NRC) panel of the NAS released a report urging the Army to consider adopting any one of three technologies for eliminating whole munitions currently in burial sites. These technologies, currently used in Europe and Japan, are "faster and more efficient"...
