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Weapon of mass destruction An early use of the exact phrase in an international treaty was in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, however no definition was provided.
Weapon of mass destruction Other documents expand the definition of WMD to also include radiological or conventional weapons. The U.S. military refers to WMD as: 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.[18] The significance of the words separable and divisible part of the weapon is that missiles such as the Pershing II and the SCUD are considered weapons of mass destruction, while aircraft capable of carrying bombloads are not. In 2004, the United Kingdom's Butler Review recognized the "considerable and long-standing academic debate about the proper interpretation of the phrase weapons of mass destruction". The committee set out to avoid the general term but when using it, employed the definition of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, which defined the systems which Iraq was required to abandon: "Nuclear weapons or nuclear-weapons-usable material or any sub-systems or components or any research, development, support or manufacturing facilities relating to [nuclear weapons]. Chemical and biological weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research,development,support and manufacturing facilities. Ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometres and related major parts, and repair and production facilities."[19] Chemical weapons expert Gert G. Harigel considers only nuclear weapons true weapons of mass destruction, because "only nuclear weapons are completely indiscriminate by their explosive power, heat radiation and radioactivity, and only they should therefore be called a weapon of mass destruction". He prefers to call chemical and biological weapons "weapons of terror" when aimed against civilians and "weapons of intimidation" for soldiers. Testimony of one such soldier expresses the same viewpoint.[20] For a period of several months in the winter of 20022003, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz frequently used the term "weapons of mass terror," apparently also recognizing the distinction between the psychological and the physical effects of many things currently falling into the WMD category. Gustavo Bell Lemus, the Vice President of Colombia, at the 2001 United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, quoted the Millennium Report of the UN Secretary-General to the General Assembly, in which Kofi Annan said that small arms could be described as WMD because the fatalities they cause "dwarf that of all other weapons systems and in most years greatly exceed the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki".[21] An additional condition often implicitly applied to WMD is that the use of the weapons must be strategic. In other words, they would be designed to "have consequences far outweighing the size and effectiveness of the weapons themselves".[22] The strategic nature of WMD also defines their function in the military doctrine of total war as targeting the means a country would use to support and supply its war effort, specifically its population, industry, and natural resources. Within U.S. civil defense organizations, the category is now Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE), which defines WMD as: (1) Any explosive, incendiary, poison gas, bomb, grenade, or rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces [113 g], missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce [7 g], or mine or device similar to the above. (2) Poison gas. (3) Any weapon involving a disease organism. (4) Any weapon that is designed to release radiation at a level dangerous to human life.
Weapon of mass destruction Military For the general purposes of national defense,[23] US Code[24] defines a weapon of mass destruction as: any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the release, dissemination, or impact of: toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors a disease organism radiation or radioactivity[25] For the purposes of the prevention of weapons proliferation,[26] US Code defines weapons of mass destruction as "chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and chemical, biological, and nuclear materials used in the manufacture of such weapons."[27] Criminal (Civilian) For the purposes of US Criminal law concerning terrorism,[28] weapons of mass destruction are defined as: any destructive device defined as any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or device similar to any of the devices described in the preceding clauses[29] any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors any weapon involving a biological agent, toxin, or vector any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life[30] The Federal Bureau of Investigation's definition is similar to that presented above from the terrorism statute:[31] any explosive or incendiary device, as defined in Title 18 USC, Section 921: bomb, grenade, rocket, missile, mine, or other device with a charge of more than four ounces any weapon designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors any weapon involving a disease organism any weapon designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life any device or weapon designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury by causing a malfunction of or destruction of an aircraft or other vehicle that carries humans or of an aircraft or other vehicle whose malfunction or destruction may cause said aircraft or other vehicle to cause death or serious bodily injury to humans who may be within range of the vector in its course of travel or the travel of its debris. Indictments and convictions for possession and use of WMD such as truck bombs,[32] pipe bombs,[33] shoe bombs,[34] cactus needles coated with botulin toxin,[35] etc. have been obtained under 18 USC 2332a. The Washington Post reported on 30 March 2006: "Jurors asked the judge in the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui today to define the term 'weapons of mass destruction' and were told it includes airplanes used as missiles". Moussaoui was indicted and tried for the use of airplanes as WMD.
Treaties
The development and use of WMD is governed by international conventions and treaties, although not all countries have signed and ratified them: Partial Test Ban Treaty Outer Space Treaty Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Seabed Arms Control Treaty Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT, has not entered into force as of 2012) Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Iran is suspected by western countries of seeking nuclear weapons, a claim that it denies. While the truth is unknown, the November 2007 NIE on Iran stated that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003.[36] South Africa developed a small nuclear arsenal in the 1980s but disassembled them in the early 1990s, making it the only country to have fully given up an independently developed nuclear weapons arsenal. Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine inherited stockpiles of nuclear arms following the break-up of the Soviet Union, but relinquished them to the Russian Federation. Countries with access to nuclear weapons through nuclear sharing agreements include Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey. North Korea has claimed to have developed and tested nuclear devices. Although outside sources have been unable to unequivocally support the state's claims, North Korea has officially been identified to have nuclear weapons.
Weapon of mass destruction In a separate study published in 2005,[47] a group of researchers assessed the effects reports and retractions in the media had on peoples memory regarding the search for WMD in Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. The study focused on populations in two coalition countries (Australia and USA) and one opposed to the war (Germany). Results showed that US citizens generally did not correct initial misconceptions regarding WMD, even following disconfirmation; Australian and German citizens were more responsive to retractions. Dependence on the initial source of information led to a substantial minority of Americans exhibiting false memory that WMD were indeed discovered, while they were not. This led to three conclusions: 1. The repetition of tentative news stories, even if they are subsequently disconfirmed, can assist in the creation of false memories in a substantial proportion of people. 2. Once information is published, its subsequent correction does not alter people's beliefs unless they are suspicious about the motives underlying the events the news stories are about. 3. When people ignore corrections, they do so irrespective of how certain they are that the corrections occurred. A poll conducted between June and September 2003 asked people whether they thought evidence of WMD had been discovered in Iraq since the war ended. They were also asked which media sources they relied upon. Those who obtained their news primarily from Fox News were three times as likely to believe that evidence of WMD had been discovered in Iraq than those who relied on PBS and NPR for their news, and one third more likely than those who primarily watched CBS.
Media source Respondents believing evidence of WMD had been found in Iraq Fox CBS NBC CNN ABC Print media PBSNPR 33% 23% 20% 20% 19% 17% 11%
Based on a series of polls taken from JuneSeptember 2003.[48] In 2006 Fox News reported the claims of two Republican lawmakers that WMDs had been found in Iraq,[49] based upon unclassified portions of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center. Quoting from the report Senator Rick Santorum said "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent". According to David Kay, who appeared before the US House Armed Services Committee to discuss these badly corroded munitions, they were leftovers, many years old, improperly stored or destroyed by the Iraqis.[50] Charles Duelfer agreed, stating on NPR's Talk of the Nation: "When I was running the ISG the Iraq Survey Group we had a couple of them that had been turned in to these IEDs, the improvised explosive devices. But they are local hazards. They are not a major, you know, weapon of mass destruction."[51] Later, wikileaks would show that these kind of WMDs continued to be found as the Iraqi occupation continued.[52] Many news agencies, including Fox News, reported the conclusions of the CIA that, based upon the investigation of the Iraq Survey Group, WMDs are yet to be found in Iraq.[53][54]
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1. Stockpiles of chemical munitions including sarin and mustard agents were found, but none were considered to be in a usable condition due to corrosion.
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Bibliography
Chemical and Biological Weapons: Use in Warfare, Impact on Society and Environment (http://www. wagingpeace.org/articles/2001/11/00_harigel_cbw.htm), by Gert G. Harigel, 2001.
Further reading
Definition and origin
" WMD: Words of mass dissemination (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2744411.stm)" (12 February 2003), BBC News. Michael Evans, "What makes a weapon one of mass destruction?" (6 February 2004), The Times. Bruce Schneier, " Definition of 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/ 2009/04/definition_of_w.html)" (6 April 2009), Schneier on Security.
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International law
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 David P. Fidler, " Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Law (http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh97. htm)" (February 2003), American Society of International Law. Joanne Mariner, " FindLaw Forum: Weapons of mass destruction and international law's principle that civilians cannot be targeted (http://edition.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/columns/fl.mariner.civilians.war.11.20/)" (20 November 2001), CNN.
Media
Media Coverage of Weapons of Mass Destruction (http://web.archive.org/web/20060217212308/http:// www.cissm.umd.edu/documents/WMDstudy_full.pdf), by Susan D. Moeller, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, 2004. Memory for fact, fiction, and misinformation (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal. asp?ref=0956-7976), by Stephan Lewandowsky, Werner G.K. Stritzke, Klaus Oberauer, and Michael Morales, Psychological Science, 16(3): 190195, 2005.
Ethics
Jacob M. Appel, " Is All Fair in Biological Warfare? (http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/35/7/429)," Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2009.
Public perceptions
Steven Kull et al., Americans on WMD Proliferation (http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/WMDProliferation/ WMD_Prolif_Apr04/WMDProlif_Apr04_rpt.pdf) (15 April 2004), Program on International Policy Attitudes/Knowledge Networks survey.
External links
New Video: A World Without Nuclear Weapons (http://www.ploughshares.org/moment/video?p=423) United Nations: Disarmament (http://web.archive.org/web/20050624041645/http://disarmament2.un.org/ wmd/) US Department of State (http://web.archive.org/web/20070313232904/http://www.state.gov/t/np/wmd/) Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) (http://www.nti.org/) Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) (http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/index.html) Federation of American Scientists (FAS) (http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/wmd.htm) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (http://www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/) GlobalSecurity.org (http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/) Avoiding Armageddon (http://www.pbs.org/avoidingarmageddon/), PBS FAS assessment of countries that own weapons of mass destruction (http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/wmd_state. htm) National Counterproliferation Center Office of the Director of National Intelligence (http://www.counterwmd. gov/) HLSWatch.com (http://www.hlswatch.com/): Homeland Security Watch policy and current events resource Office of the Special Assistant for Chemical Biological Defense and Chemical Demilitarization Programs (http:// www.acq.osd.mil/cp/), Official Department of Defense web site that provides information about the DoD Chemical Biological Defense Program Terrorism and the Threat From Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East (http://web.archive.org/web/ 20010429080212/http://www.csis.org/stratassessment/reports/terror.html)
Weapon of mass destruction Iranian Chemical Attacks Victims (http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1239.html) (Payvand News Agency) Iran: 'Forgotten Victims' Of Saddam Hussein Era Await Justice (http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/12/ e448bece-def1-4c16-9051-75fa9552a4c8.html) Comparison of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese translations (http://www.cjvlang.com/Spicks/massweapon. html) Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (http://www.wagingpeace.org/) The WMD Awareness Programme (http://www.wmdawareness.org.uk/), Inspired by the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, The WMD Awareness Programme is dedicated to providing trustworthy and up to date information on Weapons of Mass Destruction world wide. Radius Engineering International Inc. "Nuclear Weapons Effects" (http://www.bomb-shelter.net/nuc table. pdf). In Radius Engineering International Inc. Retrieved 20 December 2010. These tables describe the effects of various nuclear blast sizes. All figures are for 15mph (kn; km/h) winds. Thermal burns represent injuries to an unprotected person. The legend describes the data. Gareth Porter, Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated (http://rawstory.com/ news/2008/IAEA_suspects_fraud_in_evidence_for_1109.html), TheRawStory, 10 November 2008 Gareth Porter, The Iranian Nuke Forgeries: CIA Determines Documents were Fabricated (http://www. counterpunch.org/porter12292009.html), CounterPunch, 29 December 2009
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