page_title: Syria and weapons of mass destruction
section_title: Alleged nuclear reactor
hierarchical_section_title: Syria and weapons of mass destruction / Nuclear program / Alleged nuclear reactor
caption_attribution_description: Syrian nuclear reactor, after it was destroyed by Israeli air force attack on September 6, 2007
context_page_description: Syria and weapons of mass destruction deals with the research, manufacture, stockpiling and alleged use by Syria of weapons of mass destruction, which include chemical and nuclear weapons.
  On 14 September 2013, the United States and Russia announced an agreement for the elimination of Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles by June 2014. In October 2013, the OPCW-UN Joint Mission destroyed all of Syria's declared chemical weapons manufacturing and mixing equipment. Several months later, Syria disclosed that it maintained a ricin chemical weapons program, which the Syrian government claims has fallen into the hands of Syrian Opposition forces in the east of the country. The following month Syria, further disclosed that it had 4 more previously hidden chemical weapons production sites. The Israeli intelligence community believes the Syrian government retains several tons of chemical weapons.
  Syria sought to develop nuclear weapons with help from North Korea, but its plutonium production reactor was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force in 2007.
caption: Satellite photo of the destroyed site
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