Buried WMDs Found ... In Maryland, page 1

U.S. weapons experts are struggling to deal with the remnants of a decades-old biological weapons program. They are trying to find potentially dangerous materials — once shrouded in secrecy — with only poorly kept records and fading memories to go on. Thousands of tons of hazardous substances like anthrax are at stake.

According to The Washington Post, the U.S. Army has spent two years and $25 million cleaning up an area of central Maryland's Fort Detrick that was used as a target range and waste dump. In what has become the Army's biggest remediation project ever, the cleanup of Area B has unearthed vials of live bacteria and nonvirulent anthrax. Some 2,000 tons have been scooped out of the ground to date, in a project due to end in 2003.

"You never know what's there until you start digging," Col. John Ball, Fort Detrick garrison commander, told The Post.

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