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The United States on Friday destroyed its last declared chemical weapon at a Kentucky munitions facility, Pentagon officials confirmed Monday.  The destruction of the weapon, a rocket filled with GB nerve agent also known as sarin, ends a decades-long effort to clear out the deadly chemicals from U.S. military stockpiles.   Ahead of the rocket’s Friday destruction at Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, just south of Lexington, Ky., defense personnel had dismantled over 100,000 rounds of mustard and nerve agents — both VX and sarin — at the location.  And on June 22, the military destroyed the last of over 780,000 projectiles and mortars filled with mustard gas at a second chemical

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