Darpa Wants To Turn Chemical Weapons Into Dirt
Media Platforms Design TeamDARPA has a new idea for a safe, easy way to eliminate all sorts of chemical weapons—breaking them down to safe compounds such as oxides and alkaline earth metal salts. This month, the agency’s Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of Chemical Agents program put out a call for radical new proposals to make this weapons-to-dirt plan happen.The drawbacks of today’s chemical weapons disposal tech is that none of the available solutions work on all agents, and the fact, due to their large size and limited transportability, these systems require that the deadly agent be transported....