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The Well-Read Wonk

Michael Krepon | Mar 16, 2021 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…is not inevitable. And that while the norm of nonuse grows stronger as time passes, it can still be broken. Take, for example, chemical weapons. They were widely used during…

 

Curious Sanctions

Jeffrey Lewis | Jan 05, 2006 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

I’ve written a short analysis, Curious Sanctions, for the Carnegie Endowment’s Proliferation News about the US sanctions imposed on two Indian chemical companies. By its own count, the Bush Administration…

 

The Yinhe Incident

James Acton | Oct 24, 2008 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…heard about this incident before but it illustrates the general point nicely. Here’s an article by Patrick Tyler from the NYT in 1993: NO CHEMICAL ARMS ABOARD CHINA SHIP A…

 

FYRP: Damned If You Do…

Harry Halem | Jun 16, 2014 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

Finally, the long awaited return! In the Middle East, the arms control community has been fixated on only chemical and nuclear arms proliferation, and reasonably so, concerning the Asad regime’s…

 

Repairing the Diplomatic Threat Reduction Enterprise

Michael Krepon | Dec 15, 2014 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons spent $87 million to demilitarize most, but not all, of Bashir al-Assad’s arsenal of chemical weapons. This price tag is equivalent to ten…

 

US to Miss CWC Deadline

Jeffrey Lewis | Jan 12, 2005 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…Chemical Weapons Disposal Program, Quarterly Chemical/Biological Executive Roundtable Breakfast Event #430B, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA (16 June 2004). The United States is required to destroy all its CW stockpiles…

 

The Future of Arms Control

Michael Krepon | Aug 06, 2013 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Biological Weapons Convention. States that do not honor the number zero become, ipso facto, outliers. Because numbers of chemical and biological weapons that are greater…

 

Experts Predict 2010 Will Be Terrible

Michael Krepon | Dec 26, 2009 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…was zero, while three others saw the risk as above 75%. Question 11: In your opinion, what is the probability of a major chemical weapons terrorist attack that inflicts numerous…

 

Putin’s Use of A Nuclear Weapon Against Ukraine Would Backfire

Michael Krepon | Mar 24, 2022 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…what he can by crossing the nuclear threshold. Or by authorizing the use of chemical weapons. Now let’s count the ways that the detonation of a single Russian nuclear warhead,…

 

An IAEA Conversation with Rafsanjani

Mark Hibbs | Oct 18, 2011 | Relevancy Score: 30.83

…of the IRGC in Iranian politics and the economy considerably magnified. The first Iraqi chemical weapons attack on Iran was in 1983. My understanding is this: Iraqi chemical attacks provoked…