The true story of destroying Syria’s chemical weapons

Published: March 16, 2021, 9:05 a.m.

The real-life thriller of destroying war-torn Syria’s stash of chemical weapons: Pulitzer winner Jody Warrick reconstructs the key decisions and the unprecedented international effort to remove the weapons under fire and then - when no country was willing to accept them - to destroy them at sea. The humanitarian crisis in the region could have been even bigger.