Watch the video here. Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Scientists Working Group member Gregory Koblentz spoke to CBS News about the chemical weapons attack in Syria. Watch the video here.
Senior Science Fellow John Gilbert quoted in Fox News
Read the full piece here. John Gilbert, a senior science fellow with the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation’s Chemical and Biological Arms Control Working Group – who previously conducted inspections in Russia and the Ukraine as a U.S. military officer – concurred that a chlorine release would result in significant injuries and would […]
National Advisory Board Member Matthew Meselson Quoted in Agence France Presse (AFP)
Read the full piece here. “The simplest explanation is that it was binary,” said Matthew Meselson, a professor at Harvard University and member of the national advisory board at the US-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. As the two chemicals combined on Kim’s face to create VX, the assailants would have been unharmed while […]
National Advisory Board Member Matthew Meselson Quoted in the Boston Herald
Read the full piece in the Boston Herald. Harvard University biochemistry professor Matthew Meselson said the nerve agent isn’t difficult to make. “A good organic chemist, given access to the right chemicals, the right stocking materials, could do this,” said Meselson, a board member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Read the full […]
National Advisory Board Member Matthew Meselson Quoted in WIRED
Read the full piece in WIRED. “If you have a nerve impulse that tells a muscle to contract, you have to turn off the impulse. Otherwise the muscle will stay contracted,” says Matthew Meselson, a geneticist at Harvard and member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation national advisory board. “The one that primarily […]