"U.S. Eliminates Final Remnants of Vast Chemical Weapons Stockpile"

The United States is on the verge of completing the destruction of its vast stockpile of chemical weapons, with the last remaining munitions set to be destroyed in the coming days. The stockpile, built up over generations, included artillery shells filled with deadly mustard agent, cluster bombs, and land mines filled with nerve agent. The destruction process has taken decades and cost close to $42 billion, far exceeding initial projections. Once the remaining weapons are eliminated, all publicly declared chemical weapons in the world will have been destroyed. However, some nations never signed the treaty, and there are concerns about undeclared stocks and the use of chemical weapons by rogue states and terrorist groups.