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Chemical Demilitarization Public Policy Aspects

Al Mauroni

ISBN: 0-275-97796-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97796-2

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256 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 4/30/2003

List Price: $85.00 (UK Sterling Price: £58.95)

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Description: For more than 15 years, the Army's chemical demilitarization program has been criticized and castigated as a potentially dangerous effort, poorly executed without concern for the public. By reviewing the chemical demilitarization program as a public policy area, Mauroni offers a different perspective on how the Army worked with Congress and the public to offer the safest program possible. The Army was forced to delay its own schedule and increase the breadth and depth of the program to address political demands and idealistic environmental concerns. Mauroni contends that Army and Department of Defense leadership's insistence on treating this program as a strictly technical effort, rather than as a public policy concern is in part responsible for the public's misunderstanding of the Army's execution of the program.

Despite its challenges, the Army is well on its way to accomplishing its goal of destroying the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile with no impact on the public or environment. They have stumbled through, however, rather than planned their exit. According to Mauroni, the Army needs to examine this program carefully to identify how to address public policy questions better in the future, to include responding to chemical and biological terrorism, developing a biological warfare vaccine program, and addressing future Gulf War illness questions. Their failure to learn will otherwise result in a continued inability to address critical questions on how they respond to chemical and biological warfare issues.

Table of Contents:

Tables and Figures
Preface
Abbreviations
No More Chemical Arms
A Legacy of Chemical Weapons
Death and Birth of a Program
Public and Congressional Interests
Developing a Disposal Program
Risk Management
Legitimizing Incineration
Implementing the Disposal Program
Managing the Disposal Program
The Impact of Public Outreach
Evaluating and Terminating the Disposal Program
Conclusions
Appendices
:Life Cycle Costs of the Program
Congressional Views on Demilitarization
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author: AL MAURONI is Senior Policy Consultant with Analytic Services Inc. His previous works include Chemical-Biological Defense: U.S. Military Policies and Decisions in the Gulf War (Praeger, 1998) and America's Struggle with Chemical-Biological Warfare (Praeger, 2000).

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