Weapons of mass destruction: denotation --- I tend to disagree. Weapons of mass destruction is a term that designate very clearly specific categories of weapons: nuclear, chemical, radiologic and biological.

It is true that there is no international treaty that consecrates a definition of weapons of mass destructions but in politics, in diplomacy and in the military people know what "weapons of mass destruction" means. The big manipulators in the Iraq case did not play with connotations, they simply lied.

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu