How many people has the US killed with Wmd's?

Question

and who has the biggest stockpile of wmd's? I thought agent orange and mustard gas were considered wmd's as well as large impact cluster bombs.

lol. don't mess with the us cause your next. ok gi joe then why couldn't we find bin ladin.

lol. I love america it has gone done the crappper since da chimpster. I'm ok with war but not under false pretenses.

lol @ kail. we are the leaders in nuclear proliferation. maybe you should dust off a history book and open it up.

lol again at kail. do you remember the nuclear standoff with russia?

Answer 1

Thousands. But we are the best country in the world. Don't mess with the US or your next. I'm proud to be an American.

Answer 2

Those killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for a start. And, yes, the USA has a large nuclear deterent force, as do certain other states that were major players in the Cold War. If, at any point, one side hadn't had such an effective deterent, you and I likely wouldn't be discussing anything.


Agent Orange is a defoliant, though it's proved none too good for humans in the long term. It'd be a WMD only from the PoV of a plant.

Answer 3

agent orange is not a war gas. mustard is a war gas.cluster bombs are used to deny enemy forces the use of an area.true the cluster bomb does not know who the enemy is. when used will kill to whom it may concerned.I think the US has the largest stockpile next to Russia. the US is deleting our war gas stock pile.agent orange did cause cancer and other sickness in a lot of military and civ.and I do not think it will ever be used again.let's hope not.

Answer 4

First of all, I don't think there's a universally-accepted definition of WMD. It is more of a political term than a technical one. We used to get frightened when another country was developing atomic weapons, but 'WMD' is the term politicians use for non-nuclear countries, like Iraq. After 9/11, we heard senators and congressmen referring to -airplanes- as WMD.

If you include nukes in the definition of WMD (and I don't see why you wouldn't) then the US killed over 100,000 with WMD in WWII.

Beyond that I don't think WMD have killed all that many people, especially non-combatants. Mustard gas turned out to be just too much trouble, it doesn't just go where you want it, and a change in the wind can make it either useless or kill lots of the wrong people. I don't believe all that many people were killed by it.

My dad fought in WWII. He and every other solider and sailor were given gas masks and trained and drilled in their use. Poison gas was thought to be the 'ultimate weapon' at the start of WWII and they thought it would be used a lot by both sides. But it was never used (or hardly ever.)

Agent Orange was a defoliant to kill trees so they couldn't be used as ground cover. Many people were killed by it, and many more were disabled, but this was a 'side effect'.

I think I would classify cluster bombs as WMD. I know we have killed many many people with them, mostly innocent bystanders. Sadly our government doesn't seem to care how many so they claim they don't even keep track. They don't want you to think about it. I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that 100s of thousands of people were killed by cluster bombs over the years not just in Iraq and Afganistan. Probably more than were killed by nukes at the end of WWII.

Who has the biggest stockpiles? Why the US of course! We spend more on weapons and military than the rest of the world combined. If you just count up the countries that are our 'enemies', we spend 20 times more on military stuff than all of them combined. We also refuse to sign treaties against land mines, chem. and bio. weapons, first use of nukes, etc. etc.

Answer 5

It helps to know what you are talking about:

Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a term used to describe a massive weapon with the capacity to indiscriminately kill or incapacitate. The phrase broadly encompasses several areas of weapon synthesis, including nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) and, increasingly, radiological weapons. Terms used in a military context include atomic, biological, and chemical warfare (ABC warfare), nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) after the invention of the hydrogen bomb, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN), recognizing the threat of sub-critical radiological weapons.

Yet understanding of the nature of the threats is not high, in part because of imprecise usage of the term by politicians and the media.

Answer 6

Mustard gas hasnt been use since WWI, cluster bombs are considered conventional weapons, agent orange is a herbacide, and 100000 people during WWII

Answer 7

In WW II, they killed many, and that is why the US knows the effects and will try to any extreme to not use those again.

Very easily, any war in the middle East could be calmed with WMD's, but to kill that many people with them, is not what the US is about.

Please study your history some more before you think that the US has stockpiles of these just "laying around" for convinient usage....

WMD's are the large ranged nuclear or chemical bombs, currently the US has no chemical bombs and has made no more nuclear bombs since the bombing of Hiroshima......

Answer 8

Briggs,
...and don't forget the napalm, a particularly nasty one. Fries humans, but leaves buildings intact....whoever would have thought of it?
Ohio, Agent Orange may have TECHNICALLY been an "herbicide" but was comprised of dioxin, one of the most carcinogenic chemicals known to humankind.
Briggs....if you've never seen it, please watch the film "Bowling for Columbine". It will give you some statistics concerning your question (pre-Iraq, anyways) and might just make you cry at the havoc we've wrought upon the world.

Answer 9

Many. Not to mention they nuked a civilian population rather than military bases in Japan. That is disgusting and cowardly. Imagine if Japan instead attacked the civilian population instead of Pearl Harbor--you'd never stop hearing about how evil and cowardly they are.

Answer 10

over 100000 in Japan in 1945 with just 2 atomic bombs

Answer 11

We have taken out a few (and I don't mean 5 or six) but that was decades ago. How many of his own people did Saddam kill with his chemicals?