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CARL BILDT, Sweden's foreign minister, pulled no punches in explaining how near his country had come to catastrophe when a suicide-bomber's deadly arsenal exploded prematurely in central Stockholm on December 11th.
While a future link between Iraq and terrorism cannot be excluded, there appears to be no evidence so far that Baghdad means to share its deadly arsenal with others.
He came back to Washington saying that he did not find "large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction", blowing away the main argument that justified the war on Iraq: Saddam and his deadly arsenal of WMD.
"These fictional escape routes are being used as a fig leaf so Russian and Syrian government forces can unleash their deadly arsenal on the people of Aleppo, claiming that civilians were given a path to escape".
By contrast, in fall 2002, as he was weighing a presidential run, he voted with a narrower majority of Democratic senators to grant President Bush the right to use force to overthrow Saddam Hussein if necessary, "because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security and that of our allies in the Persian Gulf region".
But that fear underscores the point: As Saddam's deadly arsenal grows in volume and effectiveness, his ability to intimidate and harm others only grows worse.
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And given the deadly arsenals that alienated private citizens, whatever their precise motivations, can readily assemble, it will be hard to counter this argument.
He is the co-author of Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction.
These agreements have not yet entirely eliminated these deadly arsenals (indeed, the United States is still not a party to the landmine treaty) but they stigmatized them, hugely increased the taboo against their use or possession, and convinced the majority of countries to destroy their stockpiles.
"I can't take anything off the table" is a formation far more consistent with traditional US nuclear policy, though Trump's diametrically opposed public musings on nuclear weapons raise new questions about how a President Trump would steward the US's deadliest arsenal.
The exceptional taboo that surrounds the use of chemical weapons has contributed to a diplomatic breakthrough, but dismantling Syria's deadly chemical arsenal will be hard, if not impossible, without a wider ceasefire.
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