Wmd Quotes

“Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone. I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to employ them. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far from being 'nationalized,' had been privatized for the use of one family, and was being squandered on hideous ostentation at home and militarism abroad. (Post-Kuwait inspections by the United Nations had uncovered a huge nuclear-reactor site that had not even been known about by the international community.) I had seen with my own eyes the evidence of a serious breach of the Genocide Convention on Iraqi soil, and I had also seen with my own eyes the evidence that it had been carried out in part with the use of weapons of mass destruction. I was, if you like, the prisoner of this knowledge. I certainly did not have the option of un-knowing it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“American spy agencies seemed rattled by the experiments too. I was shocked when the next Worldwide Threat Assessment — the annual report presented by the U.S. intelligence community to the Senate Armed Services Committee — described genome editing as one of the six weapons of mass destruction and proliferation that nation-states might try to develop, at great risk to America.”
― Jennifer A. Doudna, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

“My preferred weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is scientific discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“Scientific discovery is the most potent weapon of mass destruction (WMD).”
― Steven Magee

“The greatest weapon of mass destruction (WMD) known to mankind is the stock market.”
― Steven Magee

“This was the closest anybody in Iraq came to finding WMDs.
Even though it was obvious to me and my staff that there was
no way the vans could have produced biological weapons, a month
after we got the photos, the CIA published a twenty-eight-page
pamphlet insisting that was what they were for.
…I was bewildered - Colin Powell”
― Tony Koltz, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

“Concerning intelligence, "the capability to identify what to carefully examine—often a decision driven by mathematical analysis—has become as essential as the capacity to gather the intelligence itself." -- K. Lee Lerner. Cornwall, U.K. May, 2003.”
― K. Lee Lerner, Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security, 3 volume set