Terrorist weapon definition

As Steve Bowman stated in his article "Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) The Terrorist Threat," the term weapons of mass destruction is a former Soviet military term which was euphemistically used to denote nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. It is now widely used despite debate over its appropriateness, and its definition has broadened to include radiological weapons. For some, particularly in the wake of the World Trade Center airliner attacks, the term WMD has come to include any means capable of inflicting mass casualties."... 

This book is divided into three major parts. In Part I, Gas, Bugs, and Common Sense, there is a brief introduction to and definition of CBW (Chapter 1), including descriptions of why and how nation-states and sub-states (for example, terrorist organizations) develop chemical and biological weapons. Chapter 2 then lists, in a fairly straightforward manner, the nations that have CBW capabilities, along with brief descriptions of the particular agents they possess. In Chapter 3, we take a look at some of the threats we re likely and unlikely to face. 

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