(Middle East Quarterly) Danny Shoham - Syria today is a prominent member of the chemical and biological weapons (CBW) club, spending between $1 billion and $2 billion annually on its ballistic and CB capabilities, an enormous share of the Syrian military budget. Syria provides a textbook case of how a small but determined state can operate beneath the radar of international scrutiny, to build a formidable array of non-conventional capabilities under ostensibly scientific cover.
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