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Orange Impostor12/04/2012 3:08:16 pm PST

re: #86 Obdicut

From common sense.

WMD means a weapon of mass destruction.

Chemical weapons are markedly less efficient at killing people that conventional weapons. If you spend the same money and effort on, say, shelling the shit out of somewhere, you’ll kill more people than if you’d used chemical weapons.

Nukes, on the other hand, are far more efficient than conventional weapons. Some biological weapons would be, too, theoretically.

Nukes are the only actual WMDs. The other weapons are terror weapons. The distinction is an important one, and I really hate that the Bush administration eroded that and that the Obama administration has done nothing to correct it.

Shorter version: If chemical weapons are WMDs, then so is a 155 mm Howitzer, or a B-17 flying fortress dropping bombs in WWII.

I disagree with this assessment. A large enough quantity of a biological agent introduced into a municipal water supply could easily kill thousands, if not millions of people.