The Obama administration has charged that the Syrian government fired rockets carrying warheads filled with sarin, a liquid nerve agent that vaporizes into a deadly mist that human skin can quickly absorb.
According to the reports, released today by the Deployment Health Support Directorate, a branch of the Pentagon office of Health Affairs, the Army detonated warheads filled with Sarin in the forest reserve in April and May of 1967.
The Shchuch'ye stockpile contains nearly two million artillery shells -- and hundreds of missile warheads -- filled with nerve gas or other chemical weapons.
The defense secretary cited the administration's Democratic Party predecessor, President Bill Clinton, as having said that Mr. Hussein "possessed 5,000 gallons of botulin, 2,000 gallons of anthrax, and 177 Scud warheads and bombs filled with biological agents".
A more formidable challenge is the destruction of bombs and warheads that are already filled with chemical agents.
A major step is to be taken in early November, when equipment for producing chemicals and filling warheads and bombs with poison gas is to be destroyed by the Syrians under international supervision.
The panel found that the heat of a nuclear warhead can be concealed by a metal shroud filled with chilly liquid nitrogen, making the warhead virtually invisible to the interceptors' infrared eyes.
In the past, Iraq has filled this type of warhead with sarin -- a deadly nerve agent used by Japanese terrorists in 1995 to kill 12 Tokyo subway passengers and sicken thousands of others.
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Around 100 surface to air missiles (SA-2) are lying around Baghdad in various stages of decay, some damaged by shrapnel, filled with volatile rocket fuel and with functioning warheads.
Filled with 20 tons of variola, those bombs and warheads would have been able to cover approximately 4,000 square miles, potentially exposing millions of people to the virus, perhaps destroying the United States "as a functioning society".
