“I think we bit off a little more than we could chew given the stockpiles we had built,” Mr. Lewis said. “Congressmen have to go home from Washington and they can’t go home and say, ‘Oh, guess what, we just put a chemical weapons disposal facility right there.’ If they do that, they’re not going to get re-elected.”
WWDB’s Tone & Tenor Radio Show Talks Chemical Weapons with Philip Coyle
Tone and Tenor show looked at the tense United States standoff with Syria in an effort to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons. Show guests are Phil Coyle, Senior Science Fellow for the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation and Alexis Moore, Associate Director, Communications for the American Friends Service Committee.
The Brian Lehrer Show Discusses Historic WMD “Red Lines” with John Isaacs
“Obviously, nuclear weapons are the worst of the worst,” said John Isaacs.
CCTV Discusses U.S.-Russian Relations and Syria with Phil Coyle
Senior Science Fellow, Phil Coyle joins CCTV to discuss U.S.-Russian relations as they relate to Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile.
Defense News Story on Chemical Weapons Inspections Quotes James Lewis
“Syria has one of the largest stockpiles in the world” said James Lewis of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, though no one knows with certainty how large it is, or where all of the chemicals are stored. Once a state signs the Chemical Weapons Convention however, they have 10 years to get rid of the weapons.
