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The secretary of the Army called it “a momentous day for the U.S. chemical demilitarization program.”

The last stockpiles of a deadly chemical agent in the U.S. have been safely eliminated, according to Kentucky officials in charge of destroying the Cold War-era weapons. The final M55 rocket containing VX nerve agent was destroyed Tuesday at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent plant. Officials at the Kentucky plant began disassembling about 18,000 of the rockets and draining the VX agent in July, according to a news release from plant officials.

We need to know where they are to go after them. so this is positive. this is significant. >> right. also, though, we've learned -- there's been so much talk about chemical weapons and isis. a senior u.s. official just confirming to us at cnn the traces of mustard agent have been found on isis mortars. i want to show you pictures of these apparent burns to the occurred de kurdish fighters. regardless, when you look, there they are. when you look at isis armed with chemical weapons or mustard agent, it appears that they may have mixed themselves. how does this change the u.s. strategy here? >> ...

>> kim dozier and bob baer are with us to talk about how significant this is. kim, you were reminded in that barbara starr piece that president obama, not that long ago, threatened a u.s. strike on syria if the assad regime used chemical weapons. ultimately we didn't see that strike. but if there is a confirmed link here, does that cross the line for the obama administration? >> with the mustard agent, the implication is that it was in some stockpile that got overrun and isis got ahold of it without any cooperation with the assad regime. there is another aspect to this that there are repeated ...

Kilometers. the military is also digging ditches behind the wall. now, u.s. officials have confirmed isis used a mustard agent during an attack in syria two weeks ago, and now they're investigating what they call credible reports the terror goup used a similar chemical agent against kurdish peshmerga fighters. that is said to have happened this week in northern iraq near erbil. a former intelligence official tells cnn this could be a huge issue for everyone in the battle zone if it is, indeed, confirmed. >> it's a game-changer, because what it means is the introduction of chemical weapons. w...