Given the importance of all kinds of chemicals to industry around the world and the ease with which virtually any fertilizer, pharmaceutical or plastics manufacturing plant can be used, when required, to make a batch of weapons agent, no ban on production can solve or even substantially mitigate the chemical weapons problem.
Equipment ordered during the third quarter included two concrete batch plants and associated crushing and screening plants, and also the first phase of the power plant, including three gas turbines with a combined capacity of 120 megawatts, Thomas said.