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weapons of mass de·struc·tion

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used to destroy large numbers of people. It includes NUCLEAR WEAPONS, and biological, chemical, and radiation weapons.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. weapons of mass destruction

    Chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons capable of a high order of destruction or causing mass casualties and exclude the means of transporting or propelling the weapon where such means is a separable and divisible part from the weapon. Also called WMD. See also special operations.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of weapons of mass destruction in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of weapons of mass destruction in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of weapons of mass destruction in a Sentence

  1. Med Jones:

    The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.

  2. Donald Trump:

    Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in, i would never have handled it that way…Two minutes after we leave, there’s going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he’ll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam [Hussein] didn’t have.

  3. Mike Pompeo:

    We are committed to the permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program and to do so without delay.

  4. Dutch Ruppersberger:

    People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks

  5. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon:

    The threat has been changed dramatically from conventional type warfare to what might be called super-conventional...weapons of mass destruction, or sub-conventional like terror, rockets, and missiles.

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