Military Admits to Extensive Dumping of Chemical Arms and Radioactive Waste Off US Coast

Are your radioactive Oysters not savory enough? Try a dash of nerve and mustard agents to spice things up. The Bradenton Herald reports:

The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.

Thankfully, this practice was ended in 1970, but these sobering statistics should make even the most rabid right wingers stop and think about the value of environmental protection and the disastrous effects of lax or non-existent EPA regulations. Politics aside, who the hell ever approved this program? What sick moron thought that dumping chemical weapons and radioactive materials off the U.S. coast was a good idea? I’ll let you know more when I find out.