An announcement by President Joe Biden was made on Friday that the country's long-standing chemical weapons stocks had been completely destroyed. This significant event marked the end of the known global supply of these weapons of mass destruction.
Though several nations are thought to have hidden stockpiles of chemical weapons, the United States was the final signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention to finish the work of destroying its "declared" stockpiles when it came into effect in 1997.
More than a century after the uncontrolled use of chemical weapons during World War I which resulted in widespread soldier casualties and maiming, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons hailed the milestone as a "historic success" of disarmament.
"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.
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