Biden says US destroys last of chemical weapons stockpile
Biden says US destroys last of chemical weapons stockpile
The U.S. has destroyed the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile, President Joe Biden said on Friday, bringing to an end a decades-long effort to eliminate the deadly weapons first used on a large scale in World War One.
Now all you need to worry about is all the non-military bio/radio/chemical hazards, the poorly maintained equipment to handle them, and the intentionally loose regulations implemented by lawmakers beholden to billionaires.
Could you be more specific?
Thats great news. I didn't even realize how long its been since the Umatilla site was finished.
A relevant blog post that I found informative and made its case well.
https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/
Oh I definitely believe this
Weren’t these just from the WWI chemical weapons stockpile? It’s not like the US got rid of ALL its chemical weapons, just the ones that have been languishing in storage for 100 years.
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Why did someone downvote this? lmao
Raytheon and Monsanto contractors that are mad about losing chem weapons contracts
This would be a lot more exciting if he didn't also just announce that we're sending cluster munitions to Ukraine.
Apparently a big reason for sending the cluster munitions to Ukraine was because the US has a rather large stockpile of cluster munitions that we could spare compared to precision munitions. Coupled with the vast minefields Russia setup in Ukrainian land makes it difficult for them to pass through areas without they themselves being blown up by random mines, and the fact that Russia has already used cluster munitions on civilian targets in Ukraine… it’s not like we sent those munitions to a random country just as an arms sale. Ukraine is actively fighting against an insurgency and terrorist state and needs all the ammo, weapons and supplies it can get.
This is how we are disposing of them.
I legit chuckled at that
The timing is so close, it has to be related. Like they decided to send the cluster munitions and then someone had to go look for things to make the non-neocons happy.