The United States and its partners are planning a series of steps of dismantling Syria’s chemical weapons program according to the New York Times article,”Plan for Riddling Syria of Chemical Arms Includes Brute Force and Chemistry” by Michael R. Gordon. The basic plan for eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons program was outlined last month in a framework agreement between American and Russian officials and has been refined in consultation with experts at the Organization Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an international watchdog group. The system to deal with the chemicals which the Pentagon says can be operated within 10 days of being shipped to a new location, would be used to neutralize the large quantities of “precursor” chemicals that could be used by the Syrian government to make sarin and other forms of poison gas.
Chemical weapons experts, in Damascus on Thursday, are tasked with destroying stockpiles
