WHY USA IS ALLOWED WMD AND OTHER GUYS AREN'T...
July 2006 - First of all, this was a tough assignment for the executive board of the CatMap. Should this be a Yellow square for extinction of just a Magenta one for Chemical? We'll have to see how things work out.
Meanwhile, the problem is that the United States is at least five years behind destroying its chemical weapons. The United States possesses the second largest chemical weapons stockpile in the world - more than 27,700 metric tons of deadly VX, GB, HD, mustard, and sarin nerve agent and associated explosives. They must be destroyed under the Chemical Weapons Convention, a treaty signed by 178 countries.
Now, in July 2006, Ambassador Eric Javits, head of the U.S. delegation to the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), submitted an extension request to the council at The Hague, Netherlands.
Don't worry: these WMD's belong to the good guys, ie. US.
He also said that if we get the extension, we still won't have time to get it done. Busy, busy, busy.
Not withstanding the fact that treaties are the kinds of things only Indians fall for, it seems like that is an awful lot of bad mojo WMD to have around.
The fact is: there's nothing to worry about.
It's really the same thing as with atomic weapons: the reason we are allowed to have atomic weapons, and short funny looking guys like Kim Il Whatever are not, is that we are the good guys. We know how to handle A-bombs because A) we invented them and B) we're the only country that has ever used one. Do you want amateurs, Islamists and nuts to be handling this kind of technology. Didn't think so.
The same argument applies to nerve gas etc. Sure we made literally tons of the stuff, but not to USE it! Just to have it so other people couldn't threaten us.
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