Pine Bluff Arsenal

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The Pine Bluff Arsenal is an active military arsenal, that stores 12.5% of the nation's obsolete chemical weapons. In an incident after WWII, several captured German rockets containing mustard agents were accidentally launched into the surrounding countryside. Biological weapons "operations" were conducted here from the 1950's to the 1970's. The 14,943-acre installation has 267 munitions storage igloos, and employs around 1,200 people.

Pine Bluff Chemical Activity conducts the current operations to destroy the part of the U.S. chemical weapon stockpile held at Pine Bluff.

Pine Bluff Arsenal was also the home for the Binary Chemical Weapons Facility. The facility was to create the two toxic agents that would combine to form VX as well as build the bombs to deliver the nerve agent. Construction of the facility began in the mid-1980s and was mothballed prior to completion in the early 1990s as part of the chemical weapons treaties^{[citation needed]}.

Location: 30 miles SE of Little Rock, 8 miles NW of Pine Bluff

Address: AR Jefferson County Links: [1]

LCS: Military