The Cape Ray, managed by the Department of Transportation, will be turned into a floating chemical weapons disposal plant.

U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration

This week in The Hague, representatives from around the world met at the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Wepaons. High on the agenda has been exactly how to dispose of Syria’s chemical weapons. As NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel reports, a plan to destroy them aboard a US ship is starting to take. It’s ambitious, complex and it needs to work.