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What would be considered the smallest weapon of mass destruction?

New York has arrested 4 guys with intent to use anti aircraft weapons which they are calling "weapons of mass destruction". What determines a weapon of mass destruction? What is mass destruction? Wouldn't a fuel tank truck be considered a WMD? So what you are saying is anything can be a WMD? So why isn't the US going after all of the WMDs instead of just the areas that have lots of oil?

Public Comments

1. An atom.
2. Biological weapons.
3. My broccoli farts can be fairly deadly.
4. Traditionally a WMD is a Nuclear weapon. An Atomic or Hydrogen Bomb. Or a conventional bomb surrounded by radioactive material with the intent to throw the radioactive material over a wide area. Advantage. Predictable effect Disadvantage. Hard to make, tricky to deliver. Biological weapon. A virus, bacterium or other living disease entity or a toxin produced from a living organism that is highly toxic. Smallpox, Anthrax....Vs.....Botulina toxin... Advantage. Easy to deliver. You can immunize your own people. before you use it. Hard to figure out where it came from. Disadvantage. Once it gets out it can kill more than you want. It will hang around and could kill future generations. Chemical weapon. A chemical that attacks living things but does nothing to non-living things. Sarin nerve gas, Mustard gas, Phosgene, even Chlorine gas. Even organophosphate insecticides can be used as chemical weapons. Advantage. Easy to make. Predicable death rates. Disadvantage. Hard to deliver without getting caught by it. Need to clean it up after you wipe out the enemy or it will wipe you out also.
5. A United States Marine and his rifle
6. The most powerful weapon of mass destruction is the human mouth. It has been involved in the starting of every war and conflict. What does everyone you don't like and/or even hate have in common? I bet it has to do with their mouth and what they have said. Countries have been built and lost by the words that come out of the mouth. Never has one small thing caused so much damage. It is world wide. There is no way to ever measure the damage that has been done by the mouth, but is on a global scale. Relationships lost, families ripped apart, nations war all from what someone has spoken. The mouth is the weapon, words are it's ammunition, and the mind is it's safety. We should use with caution and think before we speak.
7. Chuck Norris'. . . you know. And that's about the size of a pickup truck.