(Wired) Noah Shachtman - The Assad regime is actively working to enlarge its arsenal of chemical weapons, according to U.S. officials. Assad's operatives have tried repeatedly in recent months to buy up the precursor chemicals for deadly nerve agents like sarin, though the U.S. and its allies have been able to block many of these sales. Meanwhile, more than 500 metric tons of nerve agent precursors, stored in binary form, are kept at 25 locations scattered around the country.
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