alt Hacker NewsDo the missiles Iran has been raining down on other countries for decades not count as WMDs?
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jl6 • yesterday at 5:39 PM
No. There’s a definition from the UN here if you’re interested:
https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/UNHQ/9626F6CEB2A92C9B8...
sebastiennight • yesterday at 5:48 PM
AFAICT, not by any commonly accepted definition of WMD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#Def...
subscribed • yesterday at 9:04 PM
Oh, that would be quite a spin. We can probably see it in the Faux News soon.
No.
“ A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people”
https://www.dhs.gov/topics/weapons-mass-destruction.