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Project SWIFTSURE describes a three-year undertaking at the Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES) to safely destroy old chemical agent waste stored on the DRES Experimental Proving Ground. The project was created in 1989 following an independent review [1] of the Canadian chemical-biological defence research program within the Department of National Defence (DND). This review noted that chemical warfare agent stocks, empty contaminated containers, obsolete ordnance and scrap remained to be destroyed as part of an in-house disposal program on-going since World War II. In response, the Minister of National Defence directed DRES to accelerate and complete the destruction of the chemical agent waste by 1992. This Report gives an overview of the scope, the destruction technologies and methods used, and the environmental monitoring and public consultation programs which were undertaken for Project Swiftsure. Technical reports describing Project Swiftsure have been published elsewhere [2,3].
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McAndless, J.M., Boulet, C.A. (1997). Project Swiftsure. In: Heyl, M., McGuire, R. (eds) Analytical Chemistry Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons. NATO ASI Series, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5600-4_1
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