The world as US dumping ground of chemical weapons
That supposed role model of the democratic world, invading countries because they might have chemical weapons, is discovered to have dumped chemical weapons off the coast of several countries including New Zealand after WWII.
Chemical weapons dumped off NZ
US chemical weapons dumped off foreign shores
Countries include Italy, France, India, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Denmark and Norway, New Zealand, China, Russia and unidentified Latin American countries. Australia alone has 60 million pounds of chemical weapons off the coast of Brisbane.
"The hazard of leaking shells likely will last for "another tens to hundreds of years..."." But of course, nothing can legally be done, because they're in international waters and occurred before the signing of the 1975 treaty prohibiting ocean dumping of chemical munitions. Morally, of course, the US government should clean it up. Ha. Morals is what the US government has always lacked.
