The utter disregard of the #US government for the #environment and their peoples #health always leaves me speechless.

Dumping 17,000 tons of unspent WW1 chemical weapons in front of your shores, & never recovering it, what could go wrong?

"ocean drift, storms, and offshore industries, sea-disposed CWMs locations are largely unknown"

"While tossing the munitions back into the sea raises the risk that they’ll simply be dredged up again ... appears to be the safest way"

arstechnica.com/health/2026/03…

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.

^{Beth Mole (Ars Technica)}