mass destruction English

Meaning mass destruction meaning

What does mass destruction mean?

mass destruction noun

— any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface

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News and current affairs

Talk is growing of a change in US defense doctrine to allow for pre-emptive strikes on states that harbor weapons of mass destruction.

The common aim should be to remove the threat posed by a dictator with so well-documented a predilection for weapons of mass destruction.

Moreover, Saddam may already possess a weapon of mass destruction but has been deterred from using it.

Weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons - are just that, and no cause can excuse their use.

The Iraq war was ostensibly launched because of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, yet each passing day suggests that the threat was exaggerated.

Moreover, as the terrorist attacks on America of 2001 showed, weapons as basic as box-cutters can become weapons of mass destruction if they are used to exploit the vulnerabilities of modern, global life.