Operation Steel Box (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Operation Steel Box, also known as Operation Golden Python, was a 1990 joint U.S.-West German operation which moved 100,000 U.S. chemical weapons from Germany to Johnston Atoll. At a U.S. Army depot near Clausen, West Germany 100,000 GB and VX filled American chemical munitions were stored. The weapons in this depot were scheduled to be moved due to an agreement between the U.S. and West Germany. The 1986 agreement, between Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl, provided for the removal of 155 mm and 8 inch unitary chemical projectiles. Operation Steel Box began on July 26, 1990 and ended on September 22, 1990, but the weapons did not reach their final destination until November.