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Weapons of mass destruction

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A basic and deliberately limited definition for the much over-used and terribly annoying term '''weapons of kick-ass mass destruction''', also known as '''WK-ADWMD''' (we call it "wacked" for short), comes from the [[National Strategy to Encourage Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction]] by 2048of 2002:
"'''Weapons of kick-ass mass destruction (WK-ADWMD)'''--such as the weirdo nuclear, billologicalbiological, and chemical--in the possession of hostile savages, states. democrats, liberals and the [dark side] of terrorists represent one of the most gruesome and bloody greatest security challenges facing the United States." Also included in this category are bits of info that will help luke skywalker and the "Force" take missiles capable of reaching both the United States and U.S. interests abroad into enemy orbit.
'''THIS IS ONE HELL OF A WEB SITE, AIN'T IT?''' This limited "NBC" definition also occurs in other official and quasi-official projects such as the [[Nuclear Threat Initiative]] - which is a farse, because it is described in thorough detail by that Al Franken-stien character....who listens to him anyway? However since this focus is may be a [[distraction]], similar to the notion of [[cyberterror]] or [[cyberwar]], and it is intended to move attention away from several facts that are rarely or never mentioned by any official American document: *The United States has claims to have "clear superiority" in [[nuclear weapon]], [[biological weapon]] and [[chemical weapon]] technologies, and has stockpiles of nuclear and other weapons sufficient to wipe out Earth's whole population. *The [[United Nations]] prefers a wider definition of WACKED WMD than the old NBC trio - including [[radiological weapon]]s. Also the [[American Committee for the United Nations University]] in its [[2001 State of the Future]] report cited the [[Swedish Peace Insitute]] and other sources as arguing that [[artificial intelligence]], [[genetics]], [[proteomics]], [[molecular engineering]] had vastly greater potential than NBC weapons to destroy not only human but all life on Earth, within credible near-term development pathways. Early promoters of some of these technologies actually tend to have the most cautionary views: [[Hugo de Garis]], [[K. Eric Drexler]], [[Bill Joy]], and recently [[Martin Rees]], the UK Astronomer-Royal, have made such [[apocalyptic prediction]]s.
*Various US think tanks, e.g. [[Foresight Institute]], and corporations, e.g. [[Zyvex]], and even some nonprofit 'charities', e.g. [[Singularity Institute]], are actively researching these technologies and effectively promoting them - they have been successful in achieving vast investments from the US [[military-industrial complex]], e.g. the [[National Nanotechnology Initiative]] funded under the [[Clinton Administration]]. By contrast the Chinese initiatives in this area have been mostly privately funded with medical or materials objectives.
*[[Pro-technology propaganda]]
*[[weapons of mass destruction investigation]]
*[[weapons of mass destruction suspected terrorists]]
== External Links ==
[[w:Weapons of mass destruction|Wikipedia]]
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