The release of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or the dissemination of radioactive "dirty dust" are probabilities civilization must now actively prepare for.
Between these increases in weapons production and dissemination, the Argentine deal, and Russia's history of flexible terms for arms sales, it seems likely that Moscow will enact more food-for-firearms deals in the near future, especially in Latin America.
The media are its weapon of mass dissemination as well as its recruiting sergeant.
With rapid advances in biotechnology and with greater dissemination of weapons research and technology, the ability for unethical scientists to manufacture weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has increased exponentially in the past few years and will continue for the foreseeable future.
Such scientists, including unemployed Soviet weapons experts, and the dissemination of know-how about nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in books and on the Internet heighten the risk.
Mr. Rumsfeld said the Pentagon believed that several nations that support international terrorists have either developed or are trying to acquire chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, and that the dissemination of those weapons seemed a realistic concern.
The rise of the unmoderated, uncontrolled and unstoppable 'dark net' - the net that takes over when the original internet gets turned off for being a weapon of mass information dissemination.
Mr. Chemezov said Russia was probably not the culprit in the dissemination of these weapons.
So we will continue to work with our international partners on tough economic action against those involved with the production or dissemination of chemical weapons.
In the latter category we have General LeMay, who, in order to combat the "phobia" (moral revulsion against the use and dissemination of nuclear weapons, recently recounted the idyll of the Bikini atoll, in tones that would do justice to a travel poster. Quotes the General's description of the atoll as it is today.
B. anthracis was previously known to have potential as a weapon on battlefields or for large-scale outdoor dissemination.
