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Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy... by elefanten on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:35PM (#27884535)
No, there's a pretty stable presumptive meaning of "weapons of mass destruction". It means radiological, biological and chemical.

There are always people trying to expand the definition, but it's usually from more left-leaning critical schools of thought that want to classify landmines, sanctions or guns as WMD.

But in official usage, it's been pretty stable at those three.

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Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy... by throwawaycuriou on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:40PM (#27884616)
The utility is in the muddying. To use the broader term (WMD) instead of the specific (chemical weapons) is to imply the broader abuse. While the specific abuse is something the US turned a blind eye to a generation previously (chemcial weapons by Iraq against Iran)
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