2012: Russia scheduled to destroy all of its chemical weapons

According to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Chemical and Bacteriological Weapons, Russia must completely destroy the stockpile of chemical weapons it inherited from the former Soviet Union by 2012.

Russia agreed to the convention in 1997. At that time, there were 40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons at seven storage facilities across the nation. The U.S. has repeatedly pledged to assist Russia in this endeavor to reduce an arsenal that is both deadly and considered vulnerable to theft.

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Stockholm Peace Research Institute on Russia's Obligations