Word: skagerrak
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...though, there is another hazard - about 35,000 tons of chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow Baltic - blister agents (such as sulfur mustard), tear gas and other chemical irritants once the property of Nazi Germany - have lost their casings, leached into the sea and been...