Originally posted by Sikboy
Out of curiosity, when did this change take place?
-Sik
Just did some looking:
When I read your post I was thinking about the 1971 Seabed treaty which prohibited Weapons of Mass Destruction from being placed on the ocean floor. So I went ahead and looked at that treaty, to better understand your point. What I noticed was curious to say the least.
The treaty specifically bans "nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction" but declines to specifically name what other "Weapons of Mass Destruction" might be.
But there is no such ambiguity when it comes to the 1975 Biological Weapons protocol, which contains a preambulatory clause stating:
Convinced of the importance and urgency of eliminating from the arsenals of States, through effective measures, such dangerous weapons of mass destruction as those using chemical or bacteriological (biological) agents,
So it is quite possible that the lumping of Chem/Bio with Nuclear occured in the 1970s as the United Nations attempted to expand on the Geneva protocols of 1925 which, if I recall, banned only the Use of these weapons, but not he possession of them.
I'm still interested in the "mass=atomic particles" part of your statement, as I have never heard this before.
-Sik
