List of U.S. chemical weapons topics

The U.S. chemical weapons program began during World War I. Chemical weapons were only used during that war. Chemical weapons production ended in 1969 and destruction of stockpiled weapons is still ongoing. (See United States and weapons of mass destruction)

[edit] Agencies, organizations and operations

The U.S. chemical weapons programs have generally been run by the U.S. Army:

United States Army Chemical Corps, originally the Chemical Warfare Service
U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Weapons School
Soldier and Chemical Biological Command
Army Gas School
American Expeditionary Force Gas Service
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency
Chemical mortar battalion
First Chemical Regiment
MK ULTRA, the CIA-led program to test various chemicals
Operation Paperclip, a program beginning in 1945 to bring German scientists to the U.S.
Operation Red Hat, an early 1970 program to repatriate weapons from Okinawa
Operation CHASE, a late 1960s-early 70s program which disposed of chemical weapons at sea

Active bases

Closed bases

The U.S. is party to several treaties which limit chemical weapons:

Chemical Weapons Convention
Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
Washington Arms Conference Treaty (Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare. Washington, 6 February 1922.) - France prevented this treaty from coming into effect
Geneva Protocol

M139 cluster bomb

declared stockpile weapons in 1997

at time of Chemical Weapons Convention

Mustard gas
VX
Sarin (GB)
Methylphosphonyl difluoride (known to the military as DF) and a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and isopropyl amine (known as OPA), a binary chemical weapon (sarin)
isopropyl aminoethylmethyl phosphonite, or QL, part of a binary weapon (VX)