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W.M.D.

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a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
weapon of mass destruction
plural
W.M.D.S
possessive
W.M.D.'S
pluralpossessive
W.M.D.S'