Nobel Peace Prize Goes To The Organization That Destroyed Syria's Chemical Weapons

The OPCW in 2007 The Nobel Committee announced today that this year's Nobel Peace Prize will go to a group few outside the world of international security have heard of: the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The OPCW is an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague, structured a bit like the U.N.--made up of member states that have equal voting rights. (It's not actually part of the U.N., though the two groups do necessarily cooperate on projects.) The organizat...