Editing Weapon of mass destruction (section)

====Military definition====
For the general purposes of national defense,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sup_01_50.html |title=US CODE: Title 50—War and National Defense |publisher=.law.cornell.edu |date=23 March 2010 |access-date=5 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100427074108/http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sup_01_50.html |archive-date=27 April 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> the U.S. Code<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sup_01_50_10_40.html |title=US CODE: 50, ch. 40—Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction |publisher=.law.cornell.edu |date=23 March 2010 |access-date=5 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100427074956/http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sup_01_50_10_40.html |archive-date=27 April 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> defines a weapon of mass destruction as:
* any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the release, dissemination, or impact of:
** toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors
** a disease organism
** radiation or radioactivity<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/2302- |title=US CODE: 50, ch. 40, § 2302. Definitions |publisher=.law.cornell.edu |date=23 March 2010 |access-date=5 August 2010}}</ref>

For the purposes of the prevention of weapons [[Chemical weapon proliferation|proliferation]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sup_01_50_10_43.html |title=US CODE: 50, ch. 43—Preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism |publisher=.law.cornell.edu |date=23 March 2010 |access-date=5 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728140256/http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sup_01_50_10_43.html |archive-date=28 July 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> the U.S. Code defines weapons of mass destruction as "chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and chemical, biological, and nuclear materials used in the manufacture of such weapons".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/2902- |title=US CODE: 50, ch. 43; § 2902. Definitions |publisher=.law.cornell.edu |date=23 March 2010 |access-date=5 August 2010}}</ref>