Lawmakers protest plan to dispose of nerve agent in New Jersey

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WASHINGTON New Jersey lawmakers are still protesting a plan to dispose of a deadly nerve agent in the Garden State.

The Army has been given the go-ahead by federal health officials to destroy the V-X nerve agent in Indiana and truck its byproduct to New Jersey. But two New Jersey congressmen say the C-D-C has not definitively said the plan is sound.

Democrat Bob Andrews said the Centers for Disease Control endorsed the plan only on "the rosiest of scenarios."

The Army last year began neutralizing the original stockpile of more than 250-thousand gallons of Cold War-era chemical. A single drop of V-X can kill ...

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