President Joe Biden revealed that the United States has destroyed the last of its reported chemical weapons stockpile, bringing an end to a chapter of conflict that dates back to World War I.
Workers at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky destroyed rockets containing GB nerve agent, better known as sarin, on Friday, completing a decades-long campaign to eradicate a stockpile that totaled more than 30,000 tonnes by the end of the Cold War.
Under the International Chemical Weapons Convention, which went into effect in 1997 and was signed by 193 countries, the United States faced a September 30 deadline to remove its residual chemical weapons.