APPETITE FOR DESTBUCTION

摘要

In September 2013, Syria agreed to destroy its chemical weapons-good thing the US Department of Defense had recently fast-tracked the Field Deployable Hydrolysis System. It's a facility that can digest and neutralize lethal material, and it breaks down into shipping containers for transport anywhere (sidestepping pesky local laws about moving sarin and mustard gas). This summer, two of these laboratories started consuming 600 tons of killer cocktails on a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean, using heat and chemistry to turn poison into trash.