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weapons of mass destruction| Nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons with the potential to kill many people or to render a large area uninhabitable. Development and acquisition of nuclear weapons is controlled under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the use, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997). The phrase and its acronym were particularly associated with the build-up to and execution of the Iraq War in 2003. |
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| Dubai Customs organizes a training program for WMD control40 inspectors & a number of officers from Dubai Civil Defense participated in the comprehensive, first-of-its-kind program in the region Dubai customs organized a training program on the control of Weapons of Mass Destruction ( WMD) aiming to educate inspectors and other interested parties as how to identify the materials entering in the composition of WMD, store and deal with them. There have been suggestions - denied by Mr Williams - that the draft might contain the first mention of the claim that Saddam Hussein could launch a WMD strike within 45 minutes. The combating WMD mission entails the integration and synchronization of DOD-wide efforts across the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) spectrum. |
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