11.   Other former weapons plants are also waiting to ship material to the Savannah River site.

12.   Other Energy Department weapons plants face similar budget cuts.

13.   Perchlorate is a solid fuel additive that was used extensively in rocket manufacturing at the former Naval weapons plant in McGregor.

14.   Raytheon already runs a chemical weapons destruction plant for the Army on the Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

15.   Richardson announced last month that the department would seek to compensate weapons plant employees made ill by exposure to beryllium, a metal used in making nuclear bombs.

16.   Rocky Flats was one of a series of weapons plants built after World War II to play a role in the Cold War nuclear arms buildup.

17.   Richardson toured the remaining operating section of the top-secret Avangard weapons plant, which is now devoted to dismantling nuclear arms.

18.   South Carolina is dueling with the federal government about shipping in plutonium from the shuttered Rocky Flats weapons plant in Colorado.

19.   Surprise inspections and vigilant monitoring of weapons plants remain essential.

20.   That point applies in a particular way to the other raid ordered by Clinton last week, on what U.S. officials described as a chemical weapons plant in Sudan.