US eliminates it's last batch of chemical weapons arsenal

  • 08/07/2023

Friday saw the announcement by President Joe Biden that the country's long-standing chemical weapons stockpiles had been completely destroyed. This significant development marked the end of the known stores of these weapons of mass destruction.

More than a century after the uncontrolled use of chemical weapons during World War I resulted in widespread troop casualties and maiming, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons hailed the milestone as a "historic success" of disarmament.

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