Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons
via arstechnica.com
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Until 1970, the US dumped an estimated 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from World War I and II off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean—and that disposal decision continues to haunt commercial fishing operations. In an article published this week in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, health officials from New Jersey and the […]