Texas A&M University Texas A&M University researchers found
these 55-gallon drums at a known chemical weapons dumpsite near
the mouth of the Mississippi River. They suspect mustard gas was
leaking out. Oil and bombs don’t mix, yet there’s millions of
pounds of unexploded World War II munitions dumped in the Gulf
of Mexico that pose a risk to offshore drilling and the
environment, researchers say. The military carried out the
dumping from 1946 to 1970 — including off the Pacific, Atlantic
and Hawaii coasts — so it's no secret. But now that some of the
containers used to store the munitions are more than 60 years
old, the researchers say it's time to see them as a threat. "The
bottom line is that these bombs are a threat today and no one
knows how to deal with the situation," Texas A&M oceanographer
William Bryant said in a statement ahead of a briefing he'll
give at a weapons disposal conference. "If chemical agents are
leaking from some of them, that’s a real problem. If many of
them are still capable of expl