Sandia continually looks for important ways to improve the security of our society. One example is our work in remediating old WWI- and WWII-vintage chemical and biological munitions. By ensuring that such recovered munitions are safely remediated, they will not fall into the wrong hands.
The Explosives Destruction System (EDS) is a transportable system which safely disposes of recovered warfare materiel in an environmentally sound manner. EDS was designed by Sandia and has been used by the Army for over a decade to destroy thousands of old munitions found around the country,