Weapon of mass destruction

Weapons of mass destruction are weapons that can cause a lot of damage to many people. In general, people see the following as weapons of mass destruction:

• Chemical weapons, like poisonous gases and substances (e.g. nerve agents)
• Biological weapons. Those are usually germs, or other small living things that may cause a disease. Examples are smallpox or anthrax.
• Nuclear weapons

Weapon Of Mass Destruction Media

• World nuclear weapons: Large stockpile with global range (Russia and the United States) Smaller stockpile with global range (China, France, and the United Kingdom) Smaller stockpile with regional range (Pakistan, India and Israel) Small stockpile with regional range (North Korea)

• Protest in Amsterdam against the deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe, 1981

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  US and Soviet/Russian nuclear stockpiles, 1945 to 2014

• The Biological Weapons Convention

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• Anti-nuclear weapons protest, UK 1980.JPG

  Anti-nuclear weapons protest march in Oxford, 1980

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  HazardT

• Radiation warning symbol.svg

  Radiation symbol (U+2622)

Related pages

• CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) weapons