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It’s been more than three months since history was made at the Blue Grass Army Depot. The last nerve agent rocket among the more than 500 tons of chemical weapons stored in Madison County was destroyed. Officials said a full celebration would come this fall. And so, it did Thursday.

Airstrikes near Beit Jinn and Hama target Palestinian Islamic Jihad and chemical weapons facility

Officials with the Blue Grass Chemical Activity have gotten a historic stamp of approval by an international organization monitoring chemical weapons disposal.

The United States and its allies are vowing to keep Syria’s failure to account for its chemical weapons program in the spotlight at the U.N. Security Council every month despite opposition from Russia and China

Report warns of Hezbollah acquiring chemical weapons stored at CERS for future conflict with Israel.

The start of chemical weapons destruction at the Blue Grass Army Depot in 2019 meant a major increase in employment. Some 15 hundred workers were somehow involved in the disposal. Now that the last nerve rocket’s been destroyed, those jobs will decline significantly over the next couple of years.

The United States has finished destroying the last of its stock of chemical weapons, marking the end of a 26-year period during which it frequently condemned other states for maintaining and using chemical weapons while continuing to keep a stockpile of such weapons for itself.

As with cluster munitions, which the US is sending to Ukraine, the international community has prohibited the use of chemical weapons. There was an outcry over their use in Syria – why, asks Treasa Dunworth, is this situation different?

The U.S. has destroyed its last chemical weapon. It’s been decades in the making.The more than 500 tons of Nerve and Mustard agent had been stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot for all those years.