The United States has announced that it has completed destroying more than 30,000 tons of chemical weapons, including deadly sarin gas. The United States has announced that it has destroyed its entire supply of chemical weapons, according to a new report by The Guardian. The effort by the US to remove its stockpile of chemical weapons has been decades-long, beginning after the cold war when the country was harboring more than 30,000 tons of chemical weaponry. "The end of destruction of all declared chemical weapons stockpiles is an important milestone", Fernando Arias, the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said in a statement. We're finishing it for good for the United States of America," said Kim Jackson, manager of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant.


Source:   The Guardian
July 10, 2023 11:01 UTC