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May 15, 2025

The Long Shadow of Syria’s Chemical Weapons

Senior Science Fellow and Scientists Working Group member John Gilbert was quoted by Foreign Policy about Syrian chemical weapons.

“The U.S. did provide a lot of people, equipment, and money primarily to destroy the sarin and its immediate precursors,” said John Gilbert, a senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Scientists Working Group. 

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Gilbert echoed that negotiating with Syria is “very low on [America’s] list of priorities.” “At present I think the U.S. administration is worried about other things than Syrian chemical weapons,” he said. Read more

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Center in the News, Middle East, Press & In the News on the Middle East, Press Room, United States

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