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July 10, 2013

Talk Radio News Service Story on Chemical Weapons in Syria Quotes Philip Coyle

“They are used for all kinds of ordinary purposes,” Coyle said. “Everything from shampoos and bubble bath, to antifreeze or making fabric, lubricants or laxatives.”

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Middle East

May 6, 2013

Fact Sheet: Sarin in Syria

A question-and-answer format for many of the questions about sarin, chemical weapons usage in Syria and Syria’s chemical arsenal

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Middle East

May 6, 2013

Chemical and Engineering News Story on Syrian Chemical Weapons Quotes Laicie Heeley

Syria’s cache of chemical weapons is believed to be the largest in the Middle East. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s stockpile of the nerve agent sarin stockpile “is estimated in the high hundreds of tons, possibly over 1,000 tons,” says Laicie Heeley, director of Middle East and defense policy at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation.

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons

April 26, 2013

Foreign Policy Story on Syria’s Sarin Stockpile Quotes Laicie Heeley & James Lewis

Mideast weapons proliferation expert Laicie Heeley tells Foreign Policy that most estimates for the actual sarin stockpile hover around “the high hundreds of tons, possibly over 1,000.”

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons

November 1, 2012

“Want to Hear Something Really Scary? Zombies Are Real” Or at Least Could Be

Read the whole thing at the Center website here. Jules Zacher, a member of the Council for a Livable World’s Board of Director, and I wrote a haunting special to OpEdNews that ran yesterday on the threat posed to humanity by biological weapons. Here…

Posted in: New National Security, Nukes of Hazard blog

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