Originally Posted by
ColinB
It is difficult to comprehend why we built these bombs from WWII mustard gas at a factory which had not assembled any in the last ten years and at a time when we were destroying all of our Chemical Weapons.
It is of course quite possible that they were doing something "slightly different" to what it states on the documentation ! You say it's "mustard gas" to keep prying eyes away.
Regarding disposal of the gas after WW2, as is well known much of the stocks were sent to Cairnryan (near Stranraer) and loaded into surplus freighters, towed out to mid-Atlantic, and sunk. The railway handled this heavy freight with no more care than any other, and there are accounts in railway books of whole heavy trainloads, with no brakes other than on the locomotive (as was done on the railway in those days) getting out of control on the long hill down towards Stranraer. My goodness.