
Weapons of Mass Destruction
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The term weapons of mass destruction was first used in a communiqu? dated November 15, 1945, that was drafted by Vannevar Bush, director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Bush wrote of atomic weapons and weapons that could be adapted for the purposes of mass destruction. By the latter, he later specified, he had meant biological weapons. In August 1948 theUnited Nations Commission for Conventional Armaments defined “weapons of...
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