Kentucky chemical weapons disposal facility nears completion of decades-long mission

A facility in Kentucky that is dedicated to disposing of Cold War-era chemical weapons is approaching the final stages of its mission to destroy a 520-ton stockpile.

Another stockpile is being eliminated at an Army facility in Colorado, but that effort is expected to conclude before the Kentucky one. The two sites have the country's last remaining chemical weapons that must be disposed of according to a 1997 worldwide treaty.

Military and civilian officials gathered Wednesday at Eastern Kentucky University to speak about the end of the project.