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August 2003, Vol 93, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1222-1226
© 2003 American Public Health Association

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND LAW

Public Health, Law, and Local Control: Destruction of the US Chemical Weapons Stockpile

Michael R. Greenberg, PhD

The author is with the Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Michael R. Greenberg, PhD, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University, 33 Livingston Ave, Suite 100, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1958 (e-mail: mrg{at}rci.rutgers.edu).

Destruction of US chemical weapons has begun at one of the 8 sites in the continental United States, was completed on Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, and is scheduled to begin in at least 3 other locations during the upcoming year. About 25% of the stockpile and 38% of the munitions had been destroyed as of December 31, 2002.

However, the program has become controversial with regard to choice of technology, emergency management, and cost. This controversy is in large part due to efforts by some state and local governments and activist groups to play a more central role in a decisionmaking process that was once fully controlled by the US Army.






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