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(TNS) The safe destruction of 523 tons of chemical weapons completed at Madison County’s Blue Grass Army Depot has been hailed as work that “made our country proud.”

The U.S. Army has outlined several ideas the plant can be used for in the future. They range from making shipping containers to supplying parts for American ammunition.

The world banned chemical weapons in 1997. Here’s why it took so long for the US to eliminate its arsenal.

Defense Department employees made history July 7, 2023, by destroying the last chemical weapon in the U.S. military arsenal ...

The United States on Friday destroyed its last declared chemical weapon at a Kentucky munitions facility, Pentagon officials confirmed Monday. The destruction of the weapon, a rocket filled with GB nerve agent also known as sarin, ends a decades-long effort to clear out the deadly chemicals from U.S. military stockpiles. Ahead of the rocket’s Friday…

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Congressional mandates and a concern for safety dragged out the process of destroying chemical weapons stockpiles, officials said Monday.

With the deadline a little less than 90 days away, officials from the United State Department of Defense and the Blue Grass Army Depot gathered in Richmond on Wednesday.

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plan is about 90% of the way to their goal of destroying chemical weapons filled with mustard gas.