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A basic and deliberately limited definition for the term '''weapons of mass destruction''', also known as '''WMD''', comes from the [[National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction]] of 2002:

[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908910.html ''Fighting Words: An Iraq War Glossary''] says that '''Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)''' are "chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. The ''Washington Post'' quoted historian Paul Fussell on the subject: 'A machine gun, properly fired, is a weapon of mass destruction. We're pretending that only awful and sinister people own weapons of mass destruction. We own them, too. We just call them something else.'"

*[[Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction]]

*[[Arms-to-Iraq affair]]

*[[Homeland defense]]

*[[Homeland security]]

*[[Iran]]

*[[Iraqi supergun affair]]

*[[nanotechnology]]

*[[National Counterproliferation Center]]

*[[weapons of mass destruction suspected terrorists]]

====2002====

*John Steinbach, [http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/02.03/0331steinbachisraeli.htm Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction: a Threat to Peace], DC Iraq Coalition/[[Centre for Research on Globalisation]] (CRG), globalresearch.ca, March 3, 2002.

*Phyllis Bennis, [http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0302powell_body.html "Powell's Dubious Case for War,"] ''Foreign Policy in Focus'', February 5, 2003.

*Firas Al-Atraqchi, [http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Al-Atraqchi_Powell.htm "Irrefutable Evidence Against Iraq? The Telling of a Tall Tale,"] ''Dissident Voice'', February 7, 2003.

*David Isenberg, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED09Ak03.html "Iraq's WMD revisited,"] ''Asia Times'', April 9, 2003.

*[[Ari Fleischer]], [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030410-6.html White House Press Briefing], April 10, 2003.

*Trevor Findlay and Ben Mines, [http://www.basicint.org/iraqconflict/Pubs/Web%20Notes/WN040603.htm "Iraq's Weapons: The US fails to best UNMOVIC,"] ''basicint.org'', June 4, 2003.

*Christopher Scheer, [http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=16274 10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq], ''AlterNet'', June 27, 2003.

*[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/opinion/04SAT1.html?th The Elusive Iraqi Weapons], ''New York Times'' Op-Ed, October 4, 2003.

*Warren Hoge, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/international/europe/06BRIT.html?th Blair Doubted Iraq Had Arms, Ex-Aide Says], ''New York Times'', October 6, 2003.

*William Rivers Pitt, [http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17391 We Caught the Wrong Guy], ''TruthOut.com'', December 15, 2003. '''A "must read" article.'''

*Richard W. Stevenson, '''[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/politics/18PREX.html Remember 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'? For Bush, They Are a Nonissue]''', ''New York Times'', December 18, 2003.

*Jim Lobe, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL20Ak03.html "Who needs WMD when you've got Saddam?,"] ''Asia Times'', December 20, 2003: "With former president Saddam Hussein in the bag, the administration of President George W Bush appears determined to make US voters forget Washington invaded Iraq on the pretext that its now evidently non-existent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a direct threat to the United States and its allies. ... '''The effort so far has taken two forms: the suggestion by administration officials, including Bush himself, that ousting and capturing Saddam were ample justifications for going to war; and the quiet dissolution of the nearly billion-dollar effort to find WMD in Iraq.'''"

*Dafna Linzer, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3740-2005Jan12.html "Search for Banned Arms In Iraq Ended Last Month. Critical September Report to Be Final Word,"] ''Washington Post'', January 12, 2005.

*[http://nytimes.com/2005/01/13/opinion/13thur1.html Bulletin: "No W.M.D. Found,"] ''New York Times'', January 13, 2005.

*Julian Borger and Jonathan Steele, [http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/13/no_wmd/index_np.html "Surprise, surprise, there were no WMD. But Bush sticks to his guns on whether invading Iraq was worth the cost,"] ''Salon'', January 13, 2005.

*[http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5185678.html "Editorial: Iraq/No WMD, no reason for war,"] ''Star Tribune'', January 14, 2005.

*[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6834079/ "U.S. found no evidence WMD moved from Iraq. No signs that weapons were smuggled, intelligence officials say,"] Associated Press, January 17, 2005.

*Emil Guillermo, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/01/18/eguillermo.DTL "Bush's Bluff,"] ''SFGate.com'', January 18, 2005.

*Kevin Harris, [http://www.thehilltoponline.com/news/2005/01/18/Campus/Bush-Calls.Off.Search.For.Weapons.Of.Mass.Destruction-834071.shtml "Bush Calls Off Search For Weapons of Mass Destruction,"] ''The Hilltop Online'', January 18, 2005.

*Edith M. Lederer, [http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXSXS8X5E.html "U.N. Report Says Satellite Images Show Some 90 Inspection Sites in Iraq Stripped or Razed,"] AP, March 4, 2005.

*Edith M. Lederer, [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050603/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_weapons_inspectors "U.N.: Weapons Equipment Missing in Iraq,"] AP, June 3, 2005.

*Jennifer Loven, [http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-iraq04.html "White House downplays Iraq missing weapons report,"] ''Chicago Sun-Times'', June 4, 2005.

====2006====

*Katherine Shrader, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201475.html "New Intel Report Reignites Iraq Arms Fight,"] Associated Press (''Washington Post''), June 22, 2006: "The newly declassified military intelligence report was released Wednesday by National Intelligence Director [[John Negroponte]]." Congressmen [[Rick Santorum]] (R-Pennsylvania) and [[Peter Hoekstra]] (R-Michigan) "had urged him to release the report this week during congressional debates on Iraq."

*Joby Warrick, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/24/AR2006062401081.html "Warnings on WMD 'Fabricator' Were Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says,"] ''Washington Post'', June 25, 2006.