PB Arsenal Readies for Disposal of First Batch of Chemical Weapons Monday March 28, 2005 4:49pm White Hall, AR (AP) - Two pallets, each holding 15 M-55 rockets laced with sarin nerve agent, arrived at 2:40 p.m. Monday at a Pine Bluff Arsenal disposal facility, where some of them will be incinerated Tuesday. A tanker-like truck was loaded with the pallets in the morning today and appeared ready to travel about three miles from earthen storage igloos to a high-tech disposal facility around 11 a.m. Officials reported to a spokeswoman that the truck was ready to go at about 1 p.m., but it took another 90 minutes before they were confident that the tanker's hydraulic door system and its contents were secure. Two of the rockets are scheduled to be destroyed Tuesday. They will pass through a series of three furnaces and some scrubbers to remove even the slightest level of chemical toxins. Another 28 rockets are scheduled to be destroyed on Wednesday and the facility will eventually ramp up to 30 rockets per hour. The arsenal stores 3,850 tons of chemical weapons-- 12 percent of the national stockpile -- and it wants to burn all of them by 2010 to comply with an international treaty that says countries must destroy their stockpiles by 2012.