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Qafëmollë

Jeffrey Lewis | Oct 29, 2013 | Relevancy Score: 84.77

This is the spot where the Defense Threat Reduction Agency eliminated Albania’s chemical weapons stockpile. I’ve spent the last few weeks ruminating on the challenges of finding a third party…

 

Domestic UDMH Production in the DPRK

Jeffrey Lewis | Sep 27, 2017 | Relevancy Score: 77.06

…a large chemical industry, much of which is concentrated in the around Hamhung and Hungnam. Published accounts by North Korean defectors suggested that many chemicals for defense uses, which would…

 

Bombs, Bans, and Norms

Michael Krepon | Nov 06, 2016 | Relevancy Score: 69.36

…retention, transfer and use of chemical weapons. The process of banning chemical weapons took far too long, reflecting the barriers thrown up by domestic politics in the United States (the…

 

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Demanding Strengthened Inspections in Iran

Michael Krepon | Oct 30, 2017 | Relevancy Score: 69.36

…inspectors conducted “fact-finding” missions rather than challenge inspections to affirm the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own population. Much, but clearly not all of Assad’s chemical weapons…

 

How Bob Dole Rescued the Chemical Weapons Convention

Michael Krepon | Dec 12, 2021 | Relevancy Score: 69.36

…Lord Tennyson, Bob Dole’s obituaries recount many of his accomplishments. They do not include how he rescued the Chemical Weapons Convention for President Bill Clinton. It’s a mere detail in…

 

North Korea Expanding Key Missile Site

Dave Schmerler | Jul 02, 2018 | Relevancy Score: 69.36

…Korea’s nuclear-armed missiles. The expansion is taking place at the Chemical Material Institute in Hamhung, which is an important facility in North Korea’s missile program – it produces wound-filament airframes…

 

IHOP of Doom

Jeffrey Lewis | Aug 12, 2008 | Relevancy Score: 53.94

…Iraq. We know that this one has housed chemical munitions. In fact, this is where the Iraqis recently came up with the additional four chemical weapons shells… Let me give…

 

Guest Post: Spotlight on Syria’s Biological Weapons

Catherine Dill | Feb 08, 2016 | Relevancy Score: 53.94

…Syria’s bioweapon arsenal… Wait a minute. What? Wasn’t it all chemical? Indeed, more than two years after the chemical attacks on Ghouta in 2013, the subsequent entering of Syria into…

 

Death Cult Drones, Maybe

Jeffrey Lewis | May 26, 2022 | Relevancy Score: 53.94

Did you know that, in the 1990s, the Aum Shinrikyo death-cult acquired two remote-controlled helicopters and considered using them to deliver chemical weapons? It’s a wild story, write Brian Scheu…

 

Iraq: No Large-Scale Chemical Warfare Efforts Since Early 1990s

Jeffrey Lewis | Feb 01, 2005 | Relevancy Score: 53.94

…Baghdad abandoned its chemical weapons program in 1991 and “Iraq probably did not pursue chemical warfare efforts after 1991.” This report, dated January 18, is largely based on the findings…