Rod Barton
Biography
Publications
Rod Barton is a former Director of Strategic Technology in Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation and was a principal UN weapons inspector from 1991 to 2003. In 2003–04 he was a Special Advisor to the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group tasked with the hunt for weapons of mass destruction following the Iraq War. He is the author of The Weapons Detective: The Inside Story of Australia’s Top Weapons Inspector (2006).
Echoes of Saddam at Kim Jong Nam assassination trial
We know almost nothing about North Korean special operations, but Saddam Hussein used similar assassination techniques.
North Korea shipments raise questions about Syria's chemical weapons
Has Syria been chemically disarmed?
The chemical attack in Syria: Sorting truth from propaganda
Sorting truth from propaganda in a war as complex as the Syrian conflict sometimes seems like an impossible task.
Syria's chemical weapons: Khan Sheikhoun attack may not be the last
The world should expect that Syria will continue to use its remaining chemical weapons against its populace, whenever it chooses and with relative impunity.
