Over the last few weeks, media coverage has focused on Syria and the U.S.-Russian plan to bring Syria into the Chemical Weapons Convention and destroy its chemical weapons on a modified timeline.
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.
Science Story on Chemical Weapons Quotes Philip Coyle
Alcaraz says if his lab receives samples, his team has up to 15 days to analyze it. It may take several weeks for a final report from the inspection team, Coyle says. But as he notes, the United States may not wait for the U.N. investigators’ report to launch a strike.
FOX News Talks Chemical Weapons in Syria with Philip Coyle
“Mostly it’s just that we don’t get the result we hoped for,” Coyle told Fox. “The leader of the country, bad guy though that leader may be, doesn’t give up, and so it leads to wider war. It leads to many innocent civilians being hurt or killed and doesn’t produce the result we hoped for in the first place.”
Bloomberg Story on Potential Syrian Chemial Weapons Usage Quotes Phil Coyle
Nonetheless, the “fact that so many of the wounded and dead have no apparent shrapnel or other types of wounds that might come from rifle or artillery attacks is also suggestive” of chemical weapons, Coyle, now a senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a Washington research group, said in an interview.
