Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
The Newport Chemical Depot, previously known as the Wabash River Ordnance Works and the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, was a bulk chemical warfare, chemical storage and destruction facility that was operated by the United States Army. It is located near Newport, Indiana, Newport, in west central Indiana, thirty-two miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana, Terre Haute. The site was used as a production site for the solid explosives trinitrotoluene and RDX, as well as for heavy water. It also served as the production site for all of the U.S. military's nerve agent VX (nerve agent), VX, when it was in use. All VX nerve agent at the site was neutralized by August 8, 2008. It was the third of the Army's nine chemical depots to completely destroy its stockpile. History Wabash River Ordnance Works Newport was founded during World War II to produce the military high explosive RDX. The site is , located in west central Indiana, near the Wabash River, two miles south of Newport, Indiana, an ...
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Newport Army Ammunition Plant
The Newport Chemical Depot, previously known as the Wabash River Ordnance Works and the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, was a bulk chemical warfare, chemical storage and destruction facility that was operated by the United States Army. It is located near Newport, Indiana, Newport, in west central Indiana, thirty-two miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana, Terre Haute. The site was used as a production site for the solid explosives trinitrotoluene and RDX, as well as for heavy water. It also served as the production site for all of the U.S. military's nerve agent VX (nerve agent), VX, when it was in use. All VX nerve agent at the site was neutralized by August 8, 2008. It was the third of the Army's nine chemical depots to completely destroy its stockpile. History Wabash River Ordnance Works Newport was founded during World War II to produce the military high explosive RDX. The site is , located in west central Indiana, near the Wabash River, two miles south of Newport, Indiana, an ...
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