weapons of mass destruction
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U.S. presidents have long sought to prevent Middle Eastern countries from acquiring technologies that could be used to build weapons of mass destruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Later, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac refused to endorse the 2003 invasion of Iraq, arguing that the U.S. hadn’t provided sufficient evidence that the regime was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Other Americans have advocated for strong bureaucracies to monitor potentially apocalyptic activities like testing weapons of mass destruction as far back as Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024
Some scholars have, however, voiced concern about whether using weapons of mass destruction to signpost humankind’s transformation of the planet would send the wrong kind of message about our time.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
The thought of making weapons of mass destruction had never occurred to him.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
