Word: anniston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chemical nerve-signal transmitters that becomes poisonous after serving its function. This affects control of the nervous system and ultimately causes the body to poison itself. This week, if all goes according to plan, the Army will begin shipping 12,540 rockets armed with GB from depots in Anniston, Ala., and Blue Grass, Ky., to Sunny Point arsenal in North Carolina. There the rockets, crated in concrete-and-steel boxes, will be loaded on a hulk, towed to sea some 230 miles off the Florida coast and scuttled in 16,000 ft. of water...
Also of concern is the transportation of deadly gas over creaky southern rail lines that, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, account for a disproportionate number of the nation's train wrecks and derailments. More than 400,000 people live along the 661 miles of track the Anniston train will cover, and, reportedly, the thin concrete walls encasing the rockets are fragile if dropped on one of their corners...