Army stored chemical weapons on Guam and concealed a reactor-water release.

Evidence

On Guam, the military has long stored toxic materials including Agent Orange, mustard gas and other chemical weapons, cleaning fluids, insecticides, and pesticides found to be carcinogenic or otherwise harmful to humans. In 1988, a nuclear submarine discharged radioactive reactor water in the harbor at Naval Base Guam. Navy officials never informed locals, who learned of the accident only after it was reported in a San Diego newspaper. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 420

Categorization

• SEED: The detail that locals learned of the radioactive discharge only from a San Diego newspaper is an essay hook on information asymmetry between the military, territory residents, and the mainland press.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 420