Weapons of Mass Destruction

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 300 v.1

1. Weapons of Mass Destruction / WMD |n| a nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons that can cause indiscriminate death or injury on a large scale.
2. biological weapon / bioweapon |n| a living organism or a toxic product manufactured from it, used to kill or incapacitate.
3. "However, some nations still possess stores of smallpox virus that could be used as a biological weapon."
4. "Anthrax is also relatively easy to develop as a biological weapon, as it can be spread in the air over a large area"
5. "The threat of a biological weapon attack anywhere in the world is an issue of serious concern to both candidates."
6. "They feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon."
7. chemical weapon |n| a chemical agent or toxin, such as mustard gas, lewisite, or sarin, that has been prepared for release on the battlefield or within a civilian population in sufficient concentration to cause widespread illness or death.
8. "What about the VX, a toxic chemical weapon on which further development work has been done?"
9. "Therefore, the chemical weapon programme began to operate under the facade of the State Establishment for Pesticide Production (SEPP)."
10. "The production of chemical weapon munitions was directly linked to the design and production of conventional munitions by Iraq." 
11. "Iraq constructed several chemical weapon production plants and assembled other critical elements of infrastructure at the site."
12. nuclear weapon / atomic weapon |n| an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
13. "Non-proliferation, who made recommendations relating to security and law and outer space; Felicity Hill, who described the recently launched international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and presented the updated model "Nuclear weapons convention","
14. "CAN was there long before Obama as an international campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons."
15. "The country is thought to be developing nuclear weapons."

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