![]() ![]() ![]() 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 US faced a 30 September deadline to eliminate its remaining chemical weapons under the international Chemical Weapons Convention, which took effect in 1997 and was joined by 193 countries. “The end of destruction of all declared chemical weapons stockpiles is an important milestone”, Fernando Arias, the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said in a statement. The move completes a decades-long campaign to clear a stockpile that by the end of the cold war totaled more than 30,000 tons. ![]()
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