Which nations have used weapons of mass destruction?

[JailBush]

U.S. - Atomic bombs in World War II
Iraq - U.S. ally which used poison gases against citizens (and against Iranians?)
??? - Didn't some nation(s) use mustard gas during World War I?

Are there any other examples?

[Lone_Voice]

1. some others

Other than what you have mentioned:

Germany
Iran
Allies WWI
Japan
China
Soviet Union

[fshrink]

3. And England firsted napalm in Greece

against the communist partisans in 46.

[Silverhair]

5. Napalm isn't a WMD.

When you try to define down WMD so that it includes any weapon that you happen not to like, then you reach the point where everything is a WMD, which means that nothing is a WMD. Somebody is trying to have handguns declared WMDs. So if everything becomes a WMD, then what language do we use if we want to talk about weapons that can take out tens of thousand of people at once? Napalm, bad as it is, can't do that, at once with one use.

[George_Bonanza]

2. How about those British colonists who spread smallpox to the natives?

England and France used gases as well in World War I. Russia apparently used the plague against the Swedes in the 18th century.

[xJlM]

7. The Brits were pretty savage in their dealing with Natives

In desperation, Amherst wrote the commander at Fort Pitt, Captain Simeon Ecuyer, suggesting he deliberately attempt to infect the Shawnee, Delaware, and Mingo besieging his fort with gifts of smallpox-infected blankets and handkerchiefs. Ecuyer took this as an order and did exactly that. It proved particularly effective...

http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html#Shawnee

[rasputin1952]

4. Depending on the time frame...

virtually all nations have used "WMD's" at one time or another.

Greek Fire, rotting corpses infested with bot-flies, plague, smallpox, poisoning wells by dropping corpses in them. Those who lived upstream, had little compunction in defecating in water for those downstream.

Diptheria, influenza, typhus have all been used.

Nerve gases, mustard gas, choking agents, vomiting agents.

Nukes.

Artillery and Gatling guns were considered WMD's for a time, as were machine guns such as the Maxim.

In any case, as long as there have been people on this planet, they have gone out of their way to destroy thier supposed enemies in any way they could, the more in one fell swoop, the better.

You'd think we would have learned something by now.

O8)

[Silverhair]

6. Actually we have learned. Suggested reading:

"Nonzero, The Logic of Human Destiny" It will give you hope and fear at the same time. There is a mathematical logic in what we do. It can be seen if you look at our history from a 50K+ year view. We are moving toward a unified world government and world peace, and we will have that before that much longer. He predicted the "war on terror", not in those precise words but the description is the same. The final result of that war is a unified world of coperating nations that have each surrendered part of their soverignty.

[Orangeone]

8. England

Didn't Churchill gas the Kurds?

[Terwilliger]

9. technically, only the USA

chemical ordinance is not really a mass destruction weapon

[Lone_Voice]

10. I thought that

the official designation of a weapon as WMD came from if the weapon could still kill AFTER it was initially used? Using that definition, chemical agents would certainly qualify.

[jpgray]

11. Here's what I understood it to mean:

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1996/pl104-201-xiv.htm

(1) The term `weapon of mass destruction' means 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--
(A) toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors;
(B) a disease organism; or
(C) radiation or radioactivity.