documents include radiological or conventional weapons that can cause massive casualties in their definitions of weapons of mass destruction and that these documents tend to focus on response to possible use of weapons of mass destruction within the United States. documents define weapons of mass destruction as nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. In August 1948 the United Nations Commission for Conventional Armaments defined “weapons of mass destruction” as including “atomic explosive weapons, radioactive material weapons, lethal chemical and biological weapons, and any weapons developed in the future which have characteristics comparable in destructive effect to those of the atomic bomb or other weapons mentioned.”1 The web site of the Nuclear Threat Initiative () states that most U.S. By the latter, he later specified, he had meant biological weapons. Bush wrote of atomic weapons and weapons that could be adapted for the purposes of mass destruction. Office of Scientific Research and Development. INTRODUCTION TO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION The term weapons of mass destruction was first used in a communiqué dated November 15, 1945, that was drafted by Vannevar Bush, director of the U.S. PART III APPENDICES Appendix A Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (1963) 241 Appendix B Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1970) 244 Appendix C Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (1975) 250 Appendix D Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1996): A SummaryĪppendix E The Chemical Weapons Convention (1997): A Synopsis of the Text 261 Appendix F A List of Biological Agents/DiseasesĪppendix G Chemical Agents 268 Appendix H The State of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Appendix I Maps and Graphs Index 281
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