[WASH]

There is ZERO chance of anything serious happening. A big thanks to those who protect us and guard the stockpiles of special weapons, and to all those in the military, I say thanks for putting your necks out, so that the rest of us can sleep safely.

Now I am confused. If there is "ZERO chance of anything serious happening", then why is the military "putting your necks out" or for that matter why is the military even needed to guard these stockpiles. Question - If there is "ZERO chance of anything serious happening" why is so much time and money being spend on figuring out how to get rid of this stuff and to monitor the air quality in the stockpiles? :)

[krogers58]

Now I am confused. If there is "ZERO chance of anything serious happening", then why is the military "putting your necks out" or for that matter why is the military even needed to guard these stockpiles.

There are those wackos of middle eastern descent, and I'm sure there are some homegrown wackos, who would love to get their hands on this stuff so that they could create havoc in our society.

Question - If there is "ZERO chance of anything serious happening" why is so much time and money being spend on figuring out how to get rid of this stuff and to monitor the air quality in the stockpiles? :)

As they are currently stored, there are multiple levels of containment, if the primary container fails ( i.e. the actual artillery shell or rocket) there are multiple, auxillary containers used to encase these weapons. The primary weapons containers ( i.e. the artillery shells) are getting old, and cannot be depended on, forever, to contain these nasties. The safest course of action is to get rid of these weapons, as we no longer need them ( The army has developed newer and safer types of these weapons). Another reason, is that sometime after these weapons were produced, the army came up with "safer" weapons that use binary compounds, which are inert, until they are mixed.