I believe that nerve agent disposal sites you can find pictures of are all on-site setups at the depots where the weapons were manufactured and stored. In many

I believe that nerve agent disposal sites you can find pictures of are all on-site setups at the depots where the weapons were manufactured and stored. In many cases they were disposing of stockpiles of deployment-ready munitions. Care there was not a matter of safety and surety, it was a matter of arms control and international treaty. Field-expedient disposal in an ongoing military situation, on the other hand: It can be, though not without some problems. Mauroni describes a process used in Iraq in 1991. "We'd come across a bunch of rockets, and you suspect there might be some chemicals in them," he says. "The field expedient way, if you're in a hurry, is to blow it up in place." Army Explosive Ordinance Demolition teams would use a 10-to-1 ratio of explosives to suspected chemical weapons. https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-09/fyi-chemical-weapons-and-disposal#page-2 https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-09/fyi-chemic... And yes, there are radiologicals that need to be dealt with more carefully than others. I'm not denying that. 90Sr is about the worst I can think of - its half-life is just short enough for it to be immediately dangerous but also just long enough that you can't stuff it in a box and come back in a year. And I agree that you'd have to treat it with the same immediate care that you would dimethylmercury or VX. The thing is, 90Sr is the worst radiological I can think of. US regulations partition radioactive waste into either low-level or high-level, low-level being things like the gloves the doctor wears when handling the radiotherapy drugs and everything else being high-level. And guess how you have to handle high-level waste? That's right, you have to treat every single kilogram of marginally neutron-activated steel like it's made of 90Sr. That's insane. (that and, well, if you had a lump of 90Sr, burying it in a hole for a million years is a stupid way to deal with it. 30-year half-life; throw it in a shed on a military base, if the US government collapses mail it to another government to stick on their military base. repeat for 300 years and done. if there're no stable governments to mail it to, you have bigger problems.)