At least, that’s according to a US military environmental assessment of its preferred plan for getting rid of the country’s remaining stockpiles of mustard gas, etc. in Pueblo, CO and the Bluegrass Army Depot in Kentucky.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Security Newswire reports on the release of the assessment, which finds there would be no “significant” environmental impact from blowing up part of the stockpiles.  The ‘wire also reports on the objections of a citizens’ group in Colorado, which wants more than the allotted 60 days for public comment on the assessment.

The detonations are meant to supplement the process of destroying all the weapons, which has fallen behind.  Colorado won’t be weapons-free until 2017, and Kentucky at least four years later.  That’s well beyond an international deadline.  Besides the delays, several leaks and monitoring problems have popped up in the Bluegrass.