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Ministry of Defence has lost details of munitions and chemical weapons ships dumped in the sea around Britain between 1945 and 1963
The Ministry of Defence has lost records of more than one million tonnes of munitions and details of 24 chemical weapons ships dumped in the sea around the British Isles between 1945 and 1963.
The disclosure follows the Guardian’s revelations last month about Operation Sandcastle in 1955, the scuttling in the Irish Sea of three ships containing German nerve gas and arsenic, which have never been monitored by the ministry.
The ministry says 24 ships containing chemical weapons were sunk between 1945 and 1957. It has lost the names of two ships scuttled in 1956 and 1957. Another 14,000 tonnes of the poisonous gas phosgene were “loose dumped” in Beaufort’s Dyke in the Irish Sea in 1946 and 1947.
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Ministry of Defence has lost details of munitions and chemical weapons ships dumped in the sea around Britain between 1945 and 1963
The Ministry of Defence has lost records of more than one million tonnes of munitions and details of 24 chemical weapons ships dumped in the sea around the British Isles between 1945 and 1963.
The disclosure follows the Guardian’s revelations last month about Operation Sandcastle in 1955, the scuttling in the Irish Sea of three ships containing German nerve gas and arsenic, which have never been monitored by the ministry.
The ministry says 24 ships containing chemical weapons were sunk between 1945 and 1957. It has lost the names of two ships scuttled in 1956 and 1957. Another 14,000 tonnes of the poisonous gas phosgene were “loose dumped” in Beaufort’s Dyke in the Irish Sea in 1946 and 1947.
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