Unearthing poison: Disposal of abandoned chemical weapons in China

作者：Gao Wanglai^*

来源：Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2017, 73(6): 404-410.

DOI：10.1080/00963402.2017.1388678

• Abandoned chemical weapons
• Beian
• chemical weapons
• Chemical Weapons Convention
• China
• Haerbaling Mountain
• Japan
• mustard gas
• Nanjing
• Qiqihar

For more than two decades, China and Japan have worked to eliminate the chemical weapons that Japan abandoned in China at the end of World War II. The process has involved numerous challenges, such as excavating corroded munitions that had been buried in the city of Beian along with sensitive explosives; working in the aftermath of an accident that sickened more than 40 people in Qiqihar; establishing innovative destruction technologies in Nanjing;and, at Haerbaling Mountain, embarking on the clean-up of the largest burial site for abandoned chemical weapons in China. Though bilateral tensions have sometimes strained the destruction process, Sino-Japanese cooperation has ultimately provided a useful model for nations elsewhere engaged in the disposal of abandoned chemical weapons.

• 出版日期2017
• 单位国际关系学院; 外交学院