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The storage began in the 1940s with mustard gases and was greatly expanded in the 1960s with GB and VX (O-ethyl S-methylphosphonothioate or nerve agent) <Blue Grass Army Depot, 2005>. Blue Grass Army Depot was the final location with declared chemical weapons remaining. It completed destruction of the chemical weapons on July 7, 2023. [7] [8] [9]
The United States chemical weapons program began in 1917 during World War I with the creation of the U.S. Army's Gas Service Section and ended 73 years later in 1990 with the country's practical adoption of the Chemical Weapons Convention (signed 1993; entered into force, 1997).
The weapons' destruction is a major watershed for Richmond, Kentucky and Pueblo, Colorado, where an Army depot destroyed the last of its chemical agents last month. It's also a defining moment for ...
The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) was responsible for the safe and environmentally sound destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles previously stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, and the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, now known as the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity-West.
Destruction of Kentucky's 520-ton (470-metric-tonne) stockpile began in 2019 after decades of planning and debate over how to dispose of the deadly war weapons. The Blue Grass Chemical Agent ...
The safe destruction of 523 tons of chemical weapons completed at Madison County’s Blue Grass Army Depot has been hailed as work that “made our country proud.”. The destruction helped the ...
The use of chemical weapons was officially renounced in 1991, and the U.S. signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993. As of July 7, 2023, the remaining stockpiles of sulfur mustard were announced to be destroyed. [77] The United States has completed destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile it declared in 1997, guided by RCRA ...
OpEd: Getting rid of sarin was part of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which despite flaws, is aimed at destroying 92 percent of the world’s chemical weapons.