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Blue Grass Army Depot. Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) is a U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command storage facility for conventional munitions and chemical weapons. The facility is located in east central Kentucky, southeast of the cities of Lexington and Richmond, Kentucky. The 14,494-acre (58.66 km 2) site, composed mainly of open fields and wooded ...
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is a facility built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD), near Richmond, Kentucky. The last munition, an M55 rocket containing GB nerve agent, was destroyed July 7, 2023. It marked the last chemical weapon in the U.S. stockpile.
Lexington Army Depot is a former United States Army facility located in Avon, Kentucky. In 1964, it was paired with Blue Grass Army Depot to form Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot. In 1999, the facility was closed after the recommendation of the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission .
The safe destruction of 523 tons of chemical weapons completed at Madison County’s Blue Grass Army Depot has been hailed as work that “made our country proud.”. The destruction helped the ...
Ahead of the rocket’s Friday destruction at Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, just south of Lexington, Ky., defense personnel had dismantled more than 100,000 rounds of mustard and nerve agents ...
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant began safely destroying more than 523 tons of chemical agent stored in rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot four years ago on June 7, 2019.
The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) is responsible for the safe and environmentally sound destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles previously stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, and the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado. In 1996, the United States Congress established the ACWA ...
Jul. 13—The first M55 rockets containing VX nerve agent were destroyed at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) July 9. This marks the fourth of five chemical weapons ...