Re: Have you considered whether a Molotov cocktail, explosive vest, or a rock launching sling (slingshot), could be considered, under certain circumstances, WMD’s?
It's actually stretching the point to call biological or chemical weapons "weapons of mass destruction". Clearly they are not. Mass destruction must have a lower limit.
The firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo during WW II each ought to be considered acts of barbarism, war crimes and instances of WMD abuse.
35,000 innocents died in the Dresden firebombing of February, 1945. About 120,000 civilians (mostly women and children) died in Toyko firebombing the night of June 9-10, 1945.
The U.S. and British military were guilty of heinous war crimes in these instances, as was the U.S. military in the politically motivated incineration of another 150,000 Japanese civilians in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic conflagrations.
Only because we live in a world where the victor is never held up for criminal prosecution can such barbaric acts of terrorism go unpunished.
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Is a single Molotov cocktail a WMD? That seems to be a silly extension of the term WMD, the same thing as with the notion that a slingshot could possibly fall into the category..
For real examples of sheer terror and WMD abuse, it's hard to top the U.S. military's efforts. In fact, it can't be done.
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