No more chemical weapons.

The US has officially destroyed the last of its stockpile decades after it said it would.

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The United States has finally destroyed the last of its stockpile of chemical weapons.

And this means it has fulfilled a promise made back in 1997.

That's when the Senate ratified the chemical weapons convention, a treaty that was meant

to get rid of all chemical weapons.

Here's President Bill Clinton speaking at the time.

The convention requires other nations to follow our lead to eliminate their arsenals of

poison gas and to give up developing, producing and acquiring such weapons in the future.

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