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  Weapons of mass destruction information - Search.com
Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or propelling the weapon where such means is a separable and divisible part of the weapon.
Weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons, are rarely used because their use is essentially an "invitation" for a WMD retaliation, which in turn could escalate into a war so destructive it could easily destroy huge segments of the world's population.
Weapons of mass destruction are used to justify the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against "rogue states" thought to be in danger of possessing or developing them.
www.search.com /reference/Weapons_of_mass_destruction   (3145 words)

  
 Why War? 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' Meaningless   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
These are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death on a massive scale.' Billed by the White House as laying out the case for military action against Iraq, the speech employed the phrase 'weapons of mass destruction' eight times.
Then there are atomic and nuclear devices--utterly, unmistakably "weapons of mass destruction." Pound for pound, these are the most awful constructions of human enterprise, thousands or millions of times more dangerous than any chemical or biological arms.
As the Muellers note, depriving Iraq of chlorine on questionable "weapons of mass destruction" grounds meant that much of the country's drinking water was not chlorinated during the '90s--one factor that may have contributed to the Iraqi deaths attributable to sanctions.
www.why-war.com /news/2002/10/07/weaponso.html   (3701 words)

  
 Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Bush's "big lie" and the crisis of American imperialism
Mass protests throughout the world had demonstrated as the New York Times admitted at the time, that there were “two superpowers—the United States government and world public opinion,” which were diametrically opposed to one another.
The specter of weapons of mass destruction was used for an entire decade as an all-purpose excuse for maintaining the blockade of Iraq, preserving the no-fly zones and otherwise subverting Iraqi sovereignty.
The American media parroted uncritically the claims by the Bush administration that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam Hussein had close ties to the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and that US military action in the Middle East was in retaliation for the September 11 attacks.
www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jun2003/wmd-j21.shtml   (2879 words)

  
 NTI: Glossary
Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Established by Australia in November 1995, the commission was created to develop ideas and propose practical steps to create a nuclear weapon free world, including the related problem of maintaining stability and security during the transitional period and after this goal is achieved.
Chemical weapon (CW): Gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical substances with toxic properties that are delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to humans, animals, and plants.
Nuclear weapon: A device that releases nuclear energy in an explosive manner as the result of nuclear chain reactions involving the fission or fusion or both, of atomic nuclei.
www.nti.org /e_research/e6_glossary.html   (9770 words)

  
 Jane's Chem-Bio Web - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Poland's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Defence (OPBMR) forces have recently unveiled a newly developed deployable mobile WMD laboratory.
With continuing nuclear weapons proliferation, the increasing threat of nuclear terrorism and the misuse of civilian nuclear fuel cycles, there is renewed emphasis on the...
A major operation to enhance detection of a possible radiological weapon attack was mounted in the USA at the end of 2003 and beginning of...
chembio.janes.com /public/jcbw/news.shtml   (934 words)

  
 Interview of the President by TVP, Poland
And I'm going to say in my speech, Poland needs to be in the EU and Poland can be a friend of the United States and the two are not in conflict.
Poland is a member of this coalition of the willing, who stood up for freedom and stood up for peace and stood up for security.
And there are such places in Poland in which people believe they could build a little San Francisco, if, for example, they have American military base in their neighborhood.
www.whitehouse.gov /g8/interview5.html   (872 words)

  
 Global Partnership Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
The President clearly highlighted the nightmare scenario presented by the possibility of terrorists or their state sponsors acquiring weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which would have no hesitation in using against civilian targets.
On May 31-June 1, the Government of Poland hosted an important conference of nations supporting PSI in Krakow, Poland, where the President first announced the initiative to address the growing challenge of weapons of mass destruction proliferation.
Russia is responsible for fulfilling its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention to destroy its CW stockpiles, but assistance provided by Global Partnership partners will substantially facilitate and accelerate the destruction of CW in Russia.
www.state.gov /t/us/rm/33615.htm   (4275 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Bush: 'We Found' Banned Weapons
KRAKOW, Poland, May 30 -- President Bush, citing two trailers that U.S. intelligence agencies have said were probably used as mobile biological weapons labs, said U.S. forces in Iraq have "found the weapons of mass destruction" that were the United States' primary justification for going to war.
In remarks to Polish television at a time of mounting criticism at home and abroad that the more than two-month-old weapons hunt is turning up nothing, Bush said that claims of failure were "wrong." The remarks were released today.
In the interview, Bush said weapons had been found, but in elaborating, he mentioned only the trailers, which the CIA has concluded were likely used for production of biological weapons.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A60140-2003May30?language=printer   (963 words)

  
 Memo for the President Re: Your State-of-the-Union Address
We suggest you ensure that those over-eager functionaries responsible for the 16 words, and for your claim last spring that weapons of mass destruction had been found in the form of two "bio-trailers"-since proven to be generators of hydrogen for weather balloons-take no hand in drafting this year's address.
They found the evidence on the presence of weapons of mass destruction inconclusive-and far short of what would be necessary to justify war.
Those two major allies and others have concluded that the evidence that Iraq is continuing to pursue new weapons of mass destruction is far from conclusive and that it falls far short of justification for starting a war.
www.commondreams.org /views04/0115-07.htm   (3210 words)

  
 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
That he was continuing to improve his weapons of mass destruction capabilities; that he was hiding these from the world; that there were large, unaccounted for stockpiles.
We saw a gathering threat, a man who had possessed and used weapons of mass destruction on his own people, a man who sponsored terror, a man who is a danger in the region in which he lived.
He has used weapons of mass destruction, and the president determined that it was not a risk the world should have to face any longer.
www.carnegieendowment.org /static/npp/bush_admin_quotes.cfm   (13344 words)

  
 CNS - Iraq - Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
Saddam considered his chemical weapons program to be a deterrent to Coalition forces moving toward Baghdad in 1991.
Not a signatory of the Chemical Weapons Convention as of February 23 2006, however the new Iraqi government has declared its intention to accede to the Convention.
Precise assessment of Iraq's capabilities is difficult because most weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs remained secret and cannot be verified independently.
cns.miis.edu /research/wmdme/iraq.htm   (2702 words)

  
 Iran's Continuing Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Iran is a party to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and the 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
Iran’s dubious explanation for producing polonium-210, a short-lived, highly radioactive element used as a neutron initiator in nuclear weapons, was that it was intended for use in nuclear batteries that could be used in satellites and deep space programs.
The Iranian nuclear weapons program, compounded by the Iranian effort to develop long-range missiles, is one of the most serious nonproliferation challenges -- and challenges to the credibility of the NPT regime -- we face today.
www.state.gov /t/us/rm/33909.htm   (5046 words)

  
 Weapons of Mass Destruction (Harpers.org)
The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was created by the 1997 treaty that bans such weapons, complained that he didn't have enough money in his budget to make even basic preparations to respond to chemical attacks by terrorists.
Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, said that the quality of American intelligence on Iraq was very poor and suggested that the American and British governments had "jumped to conclusions" about weapons of mass destruction.
A growing number of weapons experts, engineers, chemists, and other scientists said that the "germ trailers" trumpeted by the Americans are not at all what one would expect from a mobile weapons lab and that the units appear to be designed to produce hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, which is what Iraqi scientists have claimed.
www.harpers.org /WMD.html   (4885 words)

  
 Stopping Spread of WMD Fact Sheet
Today, President Bush welcomed the decisions of Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden to join the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.
The President also welcomed the progress made in significant Global Partnership projects to reduce and prevent the proliferation of weapons and materials of mass destruction, and weapons delivery systems.
This initiative builds on more than a decade of cooperation between the United States and former Soviet states to reduce weapons and materials of mass destruction stockpiles and to prevent proliferation.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2003/06/20030602-12.html   (373 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein, the former evil dictator of a modern-day Babylon, and the Wars in Iraq -- A Bible prophecy and New Age ...
There has a great danger that Saddam tinkering with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons could come up with some method of mass destruction, such as a doomsday virus; it was very important for the safety of the world that Saddam be removed from his position of power.
There was a major concern that Saddam could have been cooking up a Smallpox biological weapon, since when the weapons inspections were done previously, one piece of equipment was noticed that was labeled "Smallpox" in Arabic.
Removing Saddam and destroying his biological and chemical weapons was a necessary part of the war against terrorism.
www.revelation13.net /Iraq.html   (3220 words)

  
 Weapons of Mass Destruction - Dennis Sandole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
General Amer al-Saadi, Saddam Hussein's erudite top biological/chemical weapons advisor, said on German TV that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that time would bear him out.
It would seem defining "weapons of mass destruction" is becoming as problematic as defining "fetus." But in any case, does it really
Once September 11, 2001 happened and U.S. military personnel shed blood in Afghanistan and Iraq, all the President has had to do to enhance and maintain consensus is to elevate the color-coded terror alert.
www.gmu.edu /departments/ICAR/sept11/letter9.htm   (189 words)

  
 Terrorism
A mighty act which also perhaps unleashes biological weapons, bacteria, or viruses or radiation.
Tribalism is intimately connected with terrorism: when one mass of people identify only with themselves and their values, and see others as lesser beings, then the ground is set for permanent conflict.
Most wars for the last twenty years have been wars inside nations rather than between them: wars over culture and ideology, conflicts that affect tribal groups and loyalties rather than national boundaries and identity, where one or both sides often resort to terrorism.
www.globalchange.com /terrorism.htm   (1112 words)

  
 WorkingForChange-Weapons of mass disappearance
Last week while in Poland, President Bush smirked straight into the television cameras and told the people of the world that despite everything it had been hearing, the U.S. had already found evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Late last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell was on the defensive regarding the specifics of the information about weapons of mass destruction he had trumpeted at the United Nations to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
While the "whatever happened to the weapons of mass destruction" question was getting major media play, vice president Dick Cheney was moving on.
www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=15099   (1126 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: WMDs Raise Stakes as Anti-Terror War Continues
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2002 -- The fact that terrorist states and networks are striving to acquire weapons of mass destruction has heightened the stakes in the global war on terrorism, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.
Reporters quizzed the U.S. defense secretary about news stories that al Qaeda may try to smuggle into the United States a so-called dirty bomb -- a weapon of mass destruction that dispenses radiological waste.
AFRTS Radio Report: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction pose threats to U.S. and the world
www.defenselink.mil /news/Apr2002/n04232002_200204234.html   (649 words)

  
 AM - 'We were taken for a ride' over Iraqi WMD: Polish President
But as the President addressed thousands of US troops who'd just returned from Iraq, the Polish President said that his country had been "taken for a ride" about the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction.
President Aleksander Kwasniewski said Poland had been mislead about the existence of weapons of mass destruction.
But he maintains any withdrawal wouldn’t be out of a fear of reprisal because of Poland's role in the coalition.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1069242.htm   (523 words)

  
 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) | Sir Humphrey's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Use of these weapons by terrorists or insurgent groups would have implications for Coalition forces in Iraq.
Apparently there is much more information available on these weapons and the search for them, but Negroponte is refusing to declassify it.
Hmmm, maybe that anti-missile system that Poland was talking to the US about might not be such an unfriendly silly idea after all?
www.sirhumphreys.com /taxonomy/term/169   (2202 words)

  
 International Smuggling Networks: Weapons of Mass Destruction Counterproliferation Initiatives
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the U.S. efforts to address the threat posed by the international smuggling of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) technologies.
As you know, the mission of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is to advance U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic interests through the implementation of U.S. export control policy on dual-use commodities, software, and technology.
the 2003 “Basic Principles for an EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” and the associated Action Plan, where the EU Council decided to include non-proliferation commitments that contain export controls requirements in its Association Agreements and other economic or assistance accords with non-EU members.
www.bis.doc.gov /news/2004/PeterTmony6_23_04.htm   (1754 words)

  
 Small business public relations & marketing from Headline Promotions
The talk of weapons of mass destruction was a smokescreen for securing oil long term so as to stabilise the global economy; but there is even a case to make for that it was just that lying is not our way of life.
Many people warned them that, when Poland was admitted to the European Union which then allowed their citizens free access to any member country, we would be deluged by Polish immigrants seeking work.
And they drive round in untaxed and uninsured cars because the driver cannot be charged as it would not be possible to enforce fines or convictions when they give their address, which who knows might even be fictitious, in Poland.
www.headlinepromotions.blogspot.com   (4925 words)

  
 Rice talks tough on Iranian nukes - World News - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that Iran could not indefinitely delay accountability for what Washington asserts is its nuclear weapons program, but she said the United States had set no deadline for Tehran to act.
Nearing the end of a European tour that included visits to both old and new members of the expanding NATO, Rice said the United States remained in “close consultations” with its European allies on the issue.
At the same time, they said, U.S. representatives were lobbying allies in a bid to oust Mohammed ElBaradei as head of the agency, perhaps as early as the end of the month.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6911810   (923 words)

  
 Truth—The No Spin Politically Incorrect Zone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fonda did us all a favor for many years after being rejected by half of America and hated by the military, by making half-hearted apologies and keeping silent with her vicious anti-Americanism.
She mistakenly believes that enough time has passed, and that the 70's have returned again with the howls of ghouls like Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Cindy Sheehan, who cause more death and destruction for American GI's than Al-Queda ever could.
May free speech reign, as I always say.
truthrock.blogspot.com   (2864 words)

  
 MoQvo: The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post content, The Huffington Post audio, The Huffington Post video clips, ...
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2 MILLION PAID ON BEHALF OF FOX NEWS FOR RELEASE OF KIDNAPPED REPORTERS...MONEY USED TO BUY WEAPONS...
Someone, on behalf of FOX News, reportedly gave terrorist organizations 2m that the terrorists now say they used to buy weapons to kill Israelis?
www.moqvo.com /en/articles/the_huffington_post_channel_115.html   (10123 words)

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