![]() ![]() “Those (weapons) sitting out there were not a threat,” Pueblo Mayor Nick Gradisar said. We’re finishing it for good for the United States of America,” said Kim Jackson, manager of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. “One thing that we’re really proud of is how we’re finishing the mission. The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent – a deadly toxin also known as sarin – that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s. 30 deadline to eliminate its remaining chemical weapons under the international Chemical Weapons Convention, which took effect in 1997 and was joined by 193 countries. It’s also a defining moment for arms control efforts worldwide. The weapons’ destruction is a major watershed for Richmond, Kentucky and Pueblo, Colorado, where an Army depot destroyed the last of its chemical agents last month. ![]() In southern Colorado, workers at the Army Pueblo Chemical Depot on June 22 completed their mission of neutralizing an entire cache of about 2,600 tons of mustard blister agent. Despite their use being subsequently banned by the Geneva Convention, countries continued to stockpile the weapons until the treaty calling for their destruction. is officially underscoring that these types of weapons are no longer acceptable in the battlefield and sending a message to the handful of countries that haven’t joined the agreement, military experts say.Ĭhemical weapons were first used in modern warfare in World War I, where they were estimated have killed at least 100,000. The munitions destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent – a deadly toxin also known as sarin – that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.īy destroying the munitions, the U.S. McConnell said in a statement that workers at Kentucky’s Blue Grass Army Depot eliminated the last of thousands of rockets filled with GB nerve agent that are the last of the United States’ declared chemical weapons and completed a decadeslong campaign to eliminate a stockpile that by the end of the Cold War totaled more than 30,000 tons. has destroyed the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile, a milestone in the history of warfare dating back to World War I. (AP) – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced Friday that the U.S. ![]()
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