US says it has destroyed its last chemical weapons
Final stockpile of mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents destroyed in Kentucky
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Final stockpile of mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents destroyed in Kentucky
Like landmines, widely-banned cluster munitions often pose a deadly threat years after being deployed. Now the US will send cluster bombs to Ukraine to support the country's counter-offensive against Russia
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Joe Biden announced on Friday that the United States had fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death.'Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile, bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons,' he said.The US was the last of the signatories of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which came into effect in 1997, to complete the task of de...
Like landmines, widely banned cluster munitions often pose a deadly threat years after being deployed. Now the United States will send cluster bombs to Ukraine to support the country's counteroffensive against Russia.
President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death."Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile -- bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons," Biden said.