(Christian Science Monitor) Chelsea Sheasley - Syria has destroyed its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Thursday. The OPCW now faces the more challenging task of destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile - thought to include more than 1,000 tons of mustard gas, as well as the nerve agent sarin. The international community is still struggling to come to agreement on where and how the chemical weapons will be destroyed. In 1947, Britain and the Soviet Union disposed of 65,000 tons of German chemical weapons by dumping them into the Baltic Sea, where today the corroding containers pose a health risk to surrounding nations.
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