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Article: Sixty secret mustard gas sites uncovered
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 1996
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More than 60 sites across Britain, officially declared "safe",
have been contaminated by deadly mustard gas, which remains
effective for decades . These sites are in addition to the eight
sites officially declared by the Government under the Chemical
Weapons Convention.
Attempts to clean up the 60-plus sites over the last 40 years
were often botched, leaving significant amounts of the highly
corrosive, persistent chemical agent in the soil. Detailed records
of the chemicals stored at the sites have been lost, according to
evidence uncovered by a television documentary to be screened on
Thursday.
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Britain has just
ratified , the Government is ...