2006-10-23 11:06:31 · 10 answers · asked by John 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
The biggie is USA with Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb attacks in WW2. Iraq used chemical WMD against the Kurds in 1989. Note the moral difference - WW2 was started by the Axis powers and USA was acting to end the war. Saddam declared war on "his" own people who were being oppressed and exterminated by him. One for the anti-war brigade to ponder ...
2006-10-23 11:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by HonestTom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What do you consider a WMD? Chemical warfare has been going on for hundreds if not a couple thousand years. The Chinese used it in conjunction with their black powder rockets using poison as the killer long ago. Then you have the war against the Aztecs and Incas through smallpox, etc... You have the use of human waste on pungi sticks and during the Civil War it was of limited use. It was used in WW1 by all countries involved. In WW2 the Germans and Japanese were working on the big bomb. Chinese have used it on their own people, so did Saddam. We used it as agent orange in Vietnam. And the list goes on. We aren't the only guilty party in this one.
2006-10-23 11:14:59 · answer #2 · answered by celticwarrior7758 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Germany used gas in both world wars, and so did Saddaam's Iraq against it's own people.
Use of biological agents was common in the Middle Ages. Forces surrounding fortified castles would kill cattle, and use catapults to lob them into the castle after a few days.
The world didn't decide they didn't like mass destruction in a vacuum. We've seen it before. We don't like it.
2006-10-23 11:11:34 · answer #3 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saddam used them on his own people
I'd consider Hitler's concentration camps to be weapons of mass destruction
2006-10-23 11:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by the answer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 21:23:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US used nuclear weapons on Japan.
2006-10-23 11:08:27 · answer #6 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Germany, Britain, Japan, Russia, any weapon that kills many people at one time, is a WMD. its not just a nuke. Gas is one.
2006-10-23 11:10:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The US under Truman thats it i think
2006-10-23 11:09:33 · answer #8 · answered by Johnathan F 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Germany, Iraq and the US for sure.
Probably more.
2006-10-23 11:14:52 · answer #9 · answered by Agent99 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
officially only one , the good old U,S, they nuked japan twice, I am not saying it was wrong , just a fact,
2006-10-23 11:11:34 · answer #10 · answered by jim ex marine offi, 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋