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Nerve Gas Disposal

NPR's Howard Berkes visits the chemical weapons stockpile near Tooele, Utah, where a factory has been set up to begin burning old nerve agent and mustard gas. There's enough chemical weaponry there to kill billions of people, some of it in leaking containers and munitions. The Army says it's time to get rid of it, but people living downwind of the plant are worried about what will blow their way.

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