Workers begin destroying V-X chemical agents

Associated Press

ANNISTON, Ala. - The Army says workers have begun destroying a stockpile of V-X chemical nerve agents.

Mike Abrams, a spokesman for the facility, says disposal operations began last night at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility.

The V-X chemical agents are stored in three types of munitions -- M-55 rockets, 155 millimeter projectiles and V-X M-23 land mines. The M-55's are the first to be incinerated.

It's the first active chemical destruction campaign since March when the last of more than 142,000-400 G-B-filled munitions were eliminated.