Live kills

According to a report from the
US National Academy of Sciences, stockpiles of chemical weapons could be neutralised by bacteria. Under Richard Magee of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, the US army could
dispose of tonnes of mustard
gas by first mixing it with water at
a temperature of 90C and
then treating the products of
the reaction with bacteria. Such
a process was also tried out with
the nerve gas VX, which was
treated with sodium hydroxide
and then tonnes of it were
destroyed by subsequent bacterial
treatment.