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After all, any crisis creates new opportunities (for example, the Syrian civil war has prompted important action on chemical weapons).
The recurring criticism directed at President Barack Obama for not following through on his threat to attack Syria if it used chemical weapons completely misses the point.
Now, with the use of chemical weapons, probably by the Syrian government (and possibly by both sides), the US has again ratcheted up the stakes.
Bypassing the UN once again, the US is declaring its intention to intervene directly by bombing Syria, ostensibly to deter the future use of chemical weapons.
Instead, the US should provide evidence of the chemical attacks to the UN; call on the Security Council to condemn the perpetrators; and refer such violations to the International Criminal Court.
This will also require that the 2002 Global Partnership, dedicated to securing and eliminating all weapons of mass destruction – nuclear, chemical, and biological – is renewed and expanded when it convenes next year in the US.
Syria’s deepening crisis, and the criminal use of chemical weapons there, has created a similar dynamic and dilemma.
Principles of international law – in particular, the emerging “responsibility to protect” doctrine and enforcement of the global ban on the use of chemical weapons – dictate that some form of military intervention must occur in order to deter others from using WMDs, particularly against civilians.
Generals ordered to use chemical weapons would have to reckon with the prospect that the regime could, actually, fall, and that they then might find themselves on trial for war crimes.
By continuing to support Assad despite his use of chemical weapons, Russia’s standing in the Arab world has gone from patron to pariah.
For example, energy-efficient buildings are a boon to the cement and chemical industries.
Hemoglobin contains hemes, chemical compounds that contain iron – a transition metal that can undergo oxidation, or “rusting” processes.
Health Care’s VoyageOne of the most important efforts in health care research over the next decade will be to integrate advances in biology, material sciences, and chemical and bioengineering to create a revolutionary new generation of medical devices and drug delivery systems.
Assad now appears prepared to give up his chemical weapons in exchange for remaining in power.
Furthermore, deployment of chemical weapons invites escalation.
America’s president is not searching for excuses to start a war;Assad’s chemical weapons are not a fanciful pretext.
If the US had not responded to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, the entire world would have asked what a US guarantee is worth if an American president’s “red line” is crossed without consequences.
If he succeeds – Syria’s chemical weapons are destroyed, a peace conference ends the civil war, a transitional government takes power, and the US and Iran launch direct negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program and regional stability in the Middle East – he will truly deserve his Nobel Peace Prize.
Are the US and its European allies prepared for a scenario in which the agreement with Russia breaks down and Syria’s chemical weapons are not destroyed under international control?
Tehran also pledged to detail its chemical weapons programs to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Hague -- though it has not yet complied American officials say.
The authors said the findings “call into question the view of oxytocin as an indiscriminate ‘love drug’ or ‘cuddle chemical,’” and raise new questions about how humans might manage “intergroup conflict and violence.”
This can be separated through chemical processing and used to build a bomb, as Israel, India, and North Korea did – and as many fear that Iran is seeking to do.
The increasing uptake of carbon dioxide is causing ocean acidification and unprecedented changes in chemical and physical conditions, which in turn are affecting marine organisms and ecosystems.
The turn for the worse followed last year’s chain of events, which started with the United Nations’ accusation that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons and ended with the US-Russia brokered agreement to destroy the regime’s chemical arsenal (thereby avoiding a poorly planned and ill-timed Western military intervention).
In a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Moallem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tabled a proposal, originally agreed with Iran, calling for Syria to “place chemical weapons storage sites under international control.”
First, there is evidence that the Syrian opposition has amassed chemical weapons.
In December 2012, Iran officially informed the US about chemical weapons, including sarin gas, being transferred to Syria.
Obama has his “red line” on the use of chemical weapons.
But if DuPont needed capital to produce a new chemical in an existing plant, it couldn’t get a loan, because banks don’t know how to assess the risks of innovative products (in the chemical industry or any other).
Carl Bosch, a young genius working for a chemical company, quickly ramped up Haber’s process to industrial levels.
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