Well, no. They're not just dumping anything over the side - they're using a mobile chemical reactor called the Field-Deployable Hydrolysis System to break the

Well, no. They're not just dumping anything over the side - they're using a mobile chemical reactor called the Field-Deployable Hydrolysis System to break the chemical weapons agents down into far less nasty, but still quite toxic, waste. Which isn't being dumped over the side, either. See here for some technical comment on the FDHS: http://guests.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/4158/cw-destruction http://guests.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/4158/cw-destructio...