The world is officially 'free' of chemical weapons. Here's what that means
The U.S. has destroyed the last of its stockpile of sarin nerve agent, fulfilling a decades-old obligation.
The United States has officially destroyed its stockpile of chemical weapons.
In doing so, it is the last of eight countries to destroy its declared stocks of chemical weapons under the Chemical Weapons Convention – an international treaty signed by nearly 200 nations that bans the possession, production and use of the weapons on the battlefield.
The milestone was reached in Kentucky. A final rocket was drained of sarin nerve agent, and that agent was then chemically deactivated and destroyed.
