Operation Salad Dressing

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., looking for a safe way to destroy more than 500,000 tons of surplus military explosives, think they may have found the solution: spinach. The “good-for-you” veggie contains an enzyme, nitroeductase, which, when mixed with water and a buffer solution, has the ability to safely “eat” explosives such as TNT. The Department of Defense is providing $1 million to study the “environmentally benign digestion process”, which should take about three years. (UPI) ...There goes the military wasting time and money again. Popeye showed that spinach could neutralize high explosives decades ago.