Packing the "depth charge" Michèle Roberts describes in her introduction to the collection, Levy's pen is a volatile weapon.
The Bible is a volatile weapon that should be handled with care and humility.
He also rediscovered the body of a Persian soldier, the man likely given the unenviable task of lighting the volatile weapon.
In an interview, Mr. Normand said it was "unheard-of" for highly volatile and dangerous weapons to be used by police forces.
An American official said such steps could include burning the least volatile component of binary weapons, a type of chemical agent that becomes potent only when separate elements are mixed.
To be sure, China and the United States, leading members of the club of nuclear nations, share a practical interest in halting the spread of nuclear weapons to volatile areas like the Middle East.
"We're not waiting for someone to call up and say, 'Hey, I have this great big dirty something in my garden.' " Without such data, weapons containing volatile explosives and, in some cases, toxic propellants stand to be found randomly or in drawn-out surveys, raising the risk of accidental discovery — and detonation — by rubble-clearance crews, farmers' plows, children or anyone else.
At its top is Pakistan, a country that "is likely to stand out in the years ahead as the single most dangerous place in today's world" because of a volatile mix of nuclear weapons, political instability, terrorist networks and Islamic radicalism, but Washington focused instead on the lesser danger that emanated from Baghdad.
"We have two volatile leaders with nuclear weapons making it personal and further digging in with their reckless rhetoric.
The juxtaposition of high explosive and poison gases in chemical weapons is particularly volatile and separating them takes nerve.
