“For 50 years, the Arms Control Association has educated citizens around the world to help create broad support for U.S.-led arms control and nonproliferation achievements.”
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A top UN disarmament official told the UN Security Council that the cache included rockets of the same type used in the 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta that killed an estimated 1,400 people.
The book by Matthew Moran, Wyn Q. Bowen, and Jeffrey W. Knopf provides a case study of the most
significant challenge to the international nonproliferation regime in the 21st century.
The new government is seeking to overcome the legacy of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad.
IAEA Confirms Uranium Samples From Syria
Syria’s decision to give the International Atomic Energy Agency unrestricted access to the sites will help resolve a yearslong investigation into the country’s nuclear program.
The number of sites is far higher than estimated when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December.
Syria’s interim foreign minister also told the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that the Assad regime’s chemical weapons program was “one of the darkest chapters” in world history.
OPCW Chief Visits Syria for Talks on Chemical Weapons
International experts have stepped up their monitoring of chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria since the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, but there are questions about the status of the program
As a result of the 2015 attack, 11 individuals showed symptoms consistent with exposure to sulphur mustard.
Even though the world is not yet completely free of chemical weapons, the CWC has significantly reduced the threat.
Investigators confirmed the fifth instance of CW use against civilians in the Syrian war.
Iran, Myanmar, Russia and Syria failed to uphold chemical weapons treaty commitments, the State Department reported.
The attacks occurred in Marea in September 2015 and in Kafr Zeita in October 2016 during the Syrian civil war.