After Syria managed to avoid a United States military strike by agreeing to give up its chemical weapons, the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons began overseeing the complicated process of removing and eliminating the arsenal. According to the
After Syria managed to avoid a United States military strike by agreeing to give up its chemical weapons, the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons began overseeing the complicated process of removing and eliminating the arsenal. According to the OPCW, 35 firms have made themselves available to destroy the "800 tons of bulk industrial chemicals that are safe to destroy in commercial incinerators." However, that still leaves at least 500 tons of chemicals that have been deemed too unsafe to be neutralized in Syria using the same methods. Countries such as Norway and Albania have rejected the opportunity to host the politically sensitive and potentially dangerous work of disposing of 