Photograph of heavy water production facility. In 1943, du Pont was awarded a contract to build a heavy water production facility to support the research and development of the atomic bomb. Heavy water production took place between 1944 and 1946...
News release about the demolition of the Newport VX production facility. Officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have completed a closeout inspection of the site where the VX Former Production Facility (FPF)...
Photograph of the VX production plant. VX production began April 26, 1961, and continued into 1968, with the VX transported to defense sites across the country. A moratorium prevented the further shipment of chemical weapons in 1969, leaving the...
Photograph of the TNT plant. The contract was awarded April 29, 1968, for the design of a five-line TNT facility. Construction began on the TNT facility in September 1968, not long after VX production had ceased. TNT production did not begin...
Photograph of construction during the conversion from the heavy water to the VX plant. In April 1961, the U.S. Army converted the former Dana Heavy Water Production Plant in Newport, to produce the nerve agent VX as a deterrent to other countries...
