Sentence examples for a category of weapons from inspiring English sources

"Never before has an entire arsenal of a category of weapons of mass destruction been removed from a country experiencing a state of internal armed conflict.

"Never before has an entire arsenal of a category of weapons of mass destruction been removed from a country experiencing a state of internal armed conflict," Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said in a statement issued at the group's headquarters in The Hague.

"Never before has an entire arsenal of a category of weapons of mass destruction been removed from a country experiencing a state of internal armed conflict," Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, said in a statement issued at the group's headquarters in The Hague.

They signed the first treaty ever to eliminate a whole category of weapons: intermediate-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

"What we're saying is there may be a small category of weapons that we think really can drastically increase the incidence of gun violence, and we already have some restrictions," he said.

He added: "We now have the opportunity to get rid of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction … That would be a great event in history if we could achieve that".

The United States and Iran are talking to each other about the elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.

It was the first arms-control treaty to abolish an entire category of weapons systems.

"We now have the opportunity to get rid of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction," he said.

This comes days after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition Against Chemical Weapons, the body tasked with overseeing the elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.

The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), formally known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (aka the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention), was the first multilateral disarmament treaty that banned the production and use of an entire category of weapons.