U.S. is destroying the last of its once-vast chemical weapons arsenal

Good news! Just a reminder that we are living in a dangerous world! World War III in the Ukraine is still going on.

The so called ABC weapons arsenals around the world!

Younger people may not remember or even know about the dangers or horrors of the Cold War anymore! Assured mutual destruction (MAD) many times over was the doctrine!

"... The destruction of the stockpile has taken decades, and the Army says the work is just about finished. The depot near Pueblo [Colorado] destroyed its last weapon in June; the remaining handful at another depot in Kentucky will be destroyed in the next few days. And when they are gone, all of the world’s publicly declared chemical weapons will have been eliminated. ...
They were a class of weapons deemed so inhumane that their use was condemned after World War I, but even so, the United States and other powers continued to develop and amass them. ...

The United States once also had a sprawling germ warfare and biological weapons program; those weapons were destroyed in the 1970s. ...

The United States and the Soviet Union agreed in principle in 1989 to destroy their chemical weapons stockpiles, and when the Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997, the United States and other signatories committed to getting rid of chemical weapons once and for all.

But destroying them has not been easy: They were built to be fired, not disassembled. The combination of explosives and poison makes them exceptionally dangerous to handle. ...
Other powers have also destroyed their declared stockpiles: Britain in 2007, India in 2009, Russia in 2017. But Pentagon officials caution that chemical weapons have not been eradicated entirely. A few nations never signed the treaty, and some that did, notably Russia, appear to have retained undeclared stocks. 
Nor did the treaty end the use of chemical weapons by rogue states and terrorist groups. Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad of Syria used chemical weapons in the country numerous times between 2013 and 2019. ... fighters from the Islamic State group used chemical weapons at least 52 times in Iraq and Syria from 2014 to 2016. ..."

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