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Article: Navy Napalm Stockpile Poses Disposal Problem
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 18, 1994
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FALLBROOK, Calif. In this quiet, pastoral corner of Southern
California, the Navy is preparing to get rid of one of America's
ugliest legacies of the Vietnam War: napalm.
About 23 million pounds of the sticky, flammable substance has
been sitting in 35,100 green canisters at the Fallbrook Naval Weapons
Station here for 20 years.
Some of the canisters have been leaking, at least 156 of them
so badly that they had to be removed and incinerated, Navy officials
said.
The toxic stockpile has some local residents frightened, but
others are unfazed, accepting such hazards as the price they pay for
the heavy concentration of military installations in San Diego
County.
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