WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden announced Friday (Jul 7) 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 Unit
WASHINGTON: 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.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons called the milestone a"historic success" of disarmament, more than one century after the uncontrolled use of chemical gases during World War I produced mass deaths and maiming of troops. Biden said it was the first time"an entire category of declared weapons of mass destruction" has been verified as destroyed.The announcement came after the Blue Grass Army Depot, a US Army facility in Kentucky, recently completed its four-year job of eliminating about 500 tonnes of lethal chemical agents, the last batch held by the US military.
More recently, the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on opponents during the country's civil war, according to the OPCW and other bodies.DOUBLY DANGEROUS WORK According to the US Arms Control Association, in 1990 the United States held nearly 28,600 tonnes of chemical weapons, the world's second-largest store after Russia.
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