biological and chemical weapons
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What could be harder than destroying 600 tons of Syrian chemical weapons? Doing it while floating on a ship in the Mediterranean. - Forty-five Army civilians who voluntarily deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to destroy Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile were honored by Department of Defense officials in a ceremony Oct. 8.
- United States helped supply chemical weapons to Iraq's Saddam Hussein
- The Bush administration withheld from troops information about old bombs and rockets in Iraq
- The destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stocks has made the whole world a safer place
- A team of scientists from Aberdeen Proving Ground has completed the historic mission of destroying the most dangerous of Syria's declared chemical weapons stocks, Pentagon officials said Monday.
- In light of the recovery of smallpox from samples whose existence was unknown for such a long period of time, it would be irresponsible to even continue the discussion of viral stock destruction.
- A team of chemists and engineers from Aberdeen Proving Ground has begun to neutralize chemicals from Syria's weapons stocks, the Pentagon said Monday.
- A team of chemists and engineers from Aberdeen Proving Ground is ready to begin the historic destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, the Pentagon said Thursday.
- Syria's surrender of its remaining chemical weapons stocks this week vindicates President Obama's handling of the threat
- At the end of January, a team of chemists and engineers left Aberdeen Proving Ground for the Mediterranean Sea to lead the historic destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. More than two months later, they're still waiting for the mission to start.
- A team of civilian specialists from Aberdeen Proving Ground is heading this week to the Mediterranean Sea for what officials and others say is a historic mission to destroy Syria's chemical warfare stockpile – and one that could serve as a model in the drive to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.
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- The images showing Syria's chemical weapons casualties were significant both for what they did and did not show.
- Rockville biotechnology company Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has struck a deal to buy Canadian firm Cangene Corp., which employs 100 people in Baltimore, for $222 million in cash, the companies said Thursday.
- Americans and human rights activists should take pride in U.S. intervention in Syria. The use of chemical weapons stopped, and the number of victims dropped from an average of 4,000 to 3,000 a month.
- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons already won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to strip Syria of its stockpile of chemical weapons. But carrying out the process is a complex feat of chemistry – one that could require the help of a team of scientists at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
- When the Nobel Prize committee announced on Oct. 11 that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had won the 2013 Peace Prize, members of a Harford County laboratory rejoiced.
- Smiths Detection, which makes detectors locally and overseas that are small enough to take into the field, said it has spotted its units used in Syria as international peacekeepers search for more details about attacks that killed civilians in the war-torn country.
- Destroying Syria's chemical weapons won't be easy, but it's possible to do safely and on-site.
- If we can build international pressure to stop the use of chemical weapons in Syria, why not to end the war?
- The Obama administration's sudden focus on chemical weapons cements Bashar Assad's lock on power in Syria.
- Getting Russia involved in chemical weapons solution could help bring peace to the region
- Galling as it may be to be lectured by Vladimir Putin on the topic of world peace and international law, the Russian president now has every incentive to deliver on his promises in Syria.
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- The Russian president's lifeline for Obama's Syria policy must be pursued but with skepticism and in concert with Congressional authorization for force.
- First Putin denies Syria's chemical use, now he wants us to trust him on a diplomatic solution?
- Congress must stand behind the president's resolve not to allow Syria's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians to go unpunished
- American debate over intervention in Syria is curiously divorced from the desires of the people we're trying to help.
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- WASHINGTON -- The dean of Maryland's congressional delegation emerged from a classified briefing Thursday persuaded that Syrian leader Bashar Assad was responsible for last month's chemical weapons attack but undecided on whether a U.S. military strike is the best response.
- Several dozen protesters rallied in Rockville and Ellicott City on Wednesday to deliver the message that even in Democratic Maryland — where six in 10 voted to re-elect President Obama last year — there are deep misgivings about U.S. involvement in another Middle East war.
- U.S. must act decisively and forcefully in response to Assad's choice to unleash chemical weapons on innocent civilians
- American inconsistency on the use of chemical weapons makes it difficult to convince a bunch of teenagers — much less Congress — that we must act.
- Members of Maryland's congressional delegation said Saturday they welcome a debate on whether the U.S. should launch a military strike against Syria but said they want to review classified intelligence reports — and hear about the scope of President Barack Obama's plan — before deciding whether to sign off.
- Doyle McManus says President Obama's plan to strike at Syria is fraught with challenges, but the other options are even worse
- The U.S. has little choice but to respond forcefully to Syria's most recent use of chemical weapons against its citizens
- There is no avoiding an international drone race; they should be banned like chemical weapons
- President Barack Obama is waffling on his earlier "red line" talk about Syrian arms -- for good reason.
