US destroys its last chemical weapons, watchdog hails milestone

Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death. "Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile -- bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons," Biden said. The United States was the last of the signatories of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which came into effect in 1997, to complet...