US military destroys last of huge chemical weapons arsenal

Workers at Blue Grass army depot in Kentucky destroy rockets filled with sarin - last of US's declared chemical weapons

The world's chemical weapons watchdog said on Friday that all declared stocks had been irreversibly destroyed" after the United States revealed it had finally got rid of its last toxic arms.

President Joe Biden announced that the Blue Grass Army Depot, a US Army facility in Kentucky, had eliminated its decades-old stocks, completing a global effort started in 1997 to rid the world of chemical weapons.