Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are weapons whose destructive power can result in the deaths of thousands of people with a single use. They include nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (NBCs). By their very nature, WMD are indiscriminate in...

The phrase weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) was first used in the London Times in 1937 to describe Germany's blanket-bombing—using conventional weapons—of the city of Guernica, Spain (Mallon 2003). During the Cold War, the Soviet...

Title 18, U.S.C. 2332a, defines a weapon of mass destruction as (1) any destructive device as defined in section 921 of the title, [which reads] any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas, bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than...

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Missing items must be accounted for By VALERIE LINCY AND KELLY MOTZ Sunday, June 1, 2003 Saddam Hussein's regime has been deposed, and the world is slowly losing interest in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. There...

Devastating the Earth, Jane Goodall, Resurgence, June 12, 2003; www.alternet.org/ story.html?storyID=16160 And then there are the weapons of mass destruction. The environment has not recovered from the atomic bombs that were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II....

New York City may soon be able to add a team of experts on weapons of mass destruction to its lineup of emergency first responders, gaining access to a terrorism-fighting tool already in place in cities like Topeka and Boise but not here, lawmakers said.Lawmakers...

“The occasional leakages of fissile material [from Russian nuclear weapons facilities] involve such miniscule amounts—in fractions of grams, not the kilograms necessary—that building nuclear weapons is not technologically...

Do we really know what is happening in our own backyard? Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be ignored by the U.S. any longer.

Weapons of mass destruction are nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological. An organism or toxin found in nature is used in them that is meant to kill or incapacitate an adversary. Though there are different types and they are made up of different ingredients, they are all meant to kill and do significant destruction.