weapons of mass destruction

Investor Warren Buffett famously labeled derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction.”

Other Americans have advocated for strong bureaucracies to monitor potentially apocalyptic activities like testing weapons of mass destruction as far back as Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign.

And on whether the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq also eroded public trust in democracy, Mr Blair argues that none of the public inquiries into the Iraq War ever found deception.

The justice department said it was indicting six Hamas members with charges including the murder of US citizens, conspiracy to finance terrorism and use of weapons of mass destruction.

The ruling moved authority to judges and away from agency experts, he said, even those in highly technical fields who provide oversight on weapons of mass destruction, cybersecurity and biohazards.