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rayiner 5 hours ago

Do the missiles Iran has been raining down on other countries for decades not count as WMDs?

oa335 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No.

“ A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people”

https://www.dhs.gov/topics/weapons-mass-destruction.

jl6 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No. There’s a definition from the UN here if you’re interested:

https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/UNHQ/9626F6CEB2A92C9B8...

subscribed an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh, that would be quite a spin. We can probably see it in the Faux News soon.

sebastiennight 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AFAICT, not by any commonly accepted definition of WMD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#Def...