Instead, the police asked for the state to deploy a team trained in detecting and responding to large-scale weapons.
Yet the policy, a significant move away from the chesslike military strategies of the cold war, deals more broadly with a range of options to prevent nations from obtaining large-scale weapons or sponsoring terrorism.
Resigning from his post after nine fruitless months in charge of the Iraq Survey Group he said he did not think there had been a large-scale weapons programme inside Iraq since 1991.
Indeed, the use of biological and chemical agents as small- and large-scale weapons has been actively explored by many nations and terrorist groups (19, 20 ).
The fragmentary nature of the weapons programmes suggests that containment had stopped large-scale weapons-making.
"In our wildest dreams we never thought mail would become a large-scale weapon," said Gene Ray, president of Titan, a company that has a 20-year track record in electron sterilization -- hitherto devoted to protecting medical supplies and food -- and that aggressively sought out the mail-cleansing job from the government.
"The US nuclear policy review published just a few weeks ago states that the US is going to retain substantial numbers of large scale nuclear weapons in perpetuity.
The prospect of Isis gaining large scale chemical weapons would raise the stakes significantly in Iraq, where a chemical attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja by Saddam's forces in 1988 left thousands of people dead.
Certainly by 1400 bc in Anatolia, iron was assuming considerable importance, and by 1200 1000 bc it was being fashioned on quite a large scale into weapons, initially dagger blades.
Certainly, by 1400 bce in Anatolia, iron was assuming considerable importance, and by 1200 1000 bce it was being fashioned on quite a large scale into weapons, initially dagger blades.
