Category Archives: Chemical Weapons

Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Use: What’s Next?

By Daryl G. Kimball, Greg Thielmann, and Kelsey Davenport The U.S. intelligence community “assesses with varying degrees of confidence, that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically, the chemical agent sarin,” according to … Continue reading

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What about Egypt’s WMD?

By Nik Gebben If Egypt’s political future remains uncertain, its nonproliferation future is even more so. The only known quantity on this issue is former IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, who could potentially help steer Cairo in a stronger direction on nonproliferation.  … Continue reading

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Separating Fact from Bush Administration Fiction About Iraq’s Suspected WMD (Again)

By Daryl G. Kimball As he pushes sales of his memoir, George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is trying, once again, to spin the facts about the “knowns” and the “unknowns” about Iraq’s suspected nuclear, chemical, biological … Continue reading

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