The Pentagon continues to assert that the United States will destroy all of its chemical weapons stockpile by September 2023.

That timeline was announced Friday by Deborah Rosenblum, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs.

“I am proud to announce that we have destroyed 98% of the chemical agents in the United States chemical weapons arsenal. We are on track to complete the destruction of the entire United States legacy chemical weapons stockpile by the scheduled September 2023 deadline," United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Deborah Rosenblum said at the hearing on the Armed Services Committee of the US House of Representatives.