What are weapons of mass destruction (BLOG #1)
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are highly dangerous weapons with a chemical, biological or radioactive capability of causing widespread death and destruction.The term weapons of mass destruction has been in currency since at least 1937, when it was used to describe massed formations of bomber aircraft. At that time these high-flying battleships of the air seemed to pose an unstoppable threat to civilian centers located far from any war front—as indeed they did during WWII, notably in the firebombings of such cities as Hamburg, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan, when tens of thousands of civilians died in a single night. With the dropping of theatomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the fearsome power of conventional bombs paled before the spectacle of an entire city center destroyed and some 66,000 people instantly killed by the blast and heat of a single nuclear weapon.
Examples
A few of many examples of these dangerous weapons are:
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