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- abbreviation weapon of mass destruction
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- initialism
Weapon of Mass Destruction
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The term WMD is often used as synonimous with any chemical or biological weapon but, literally, many of them do not have that mass effect whereas our own cluster & daisy cutter bombs, not commonly called WMDs, do.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Sorry, but the administration is the one who has denigrated the term WMD to include weapons that are much less deadly than the machine gun.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Brady II: The Objectives of the Gun Control Lobby: 2007
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It should also be noted that the term WMD Words Missing the Definition were not previously used for chemical or biological agents.
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KAYYEM: The United States is a lot better off than it was five or six years ago, that's for sure, when Congress in the mid-1990s in the Nunn-Lugar Act gave money to the states to tell them, basically, to begin to prepare for the potential of what we call a WMD, weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism.
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A WMD is by definition either a nuclear, chemical or biological weapon capable of inflicting massive casualties.
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The Bush administration in particular tended to conflate chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons under the rubric of WMD as if they were all equally dangerous.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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I thought I read somewhere lately that WMD is being defined downward to reach weapons/devices that seem quite far away from nukes and Scuds. [edit – I should have read the rest of the thread before posting] QET (Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010
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The Bush administration in particular tended to conflate chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons under the rubric of WMD as if they were all equally dangerous.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Well, any type of fanatacism mixed with WMD is bad.
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The Bush administration in particular tended to conflate chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons under the rubric of WMD as if they were all equally dangerous.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word WMD
Weapons of Marsupial Destruction.
March 23, 2011