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Dual Launched Regimes

What is the President talking about? Seriously, I am not even making fun. I have no idea:

And, finally, we talked about how we can enhance mutual security issues. And there’s no better symbol of our desire to work for peace and security than working on a missile defense system—a missile defense system that would provide security for Europe from single or dual-launched regimes that may emanate from parts of the world where leaders don’t particularly care for our way of life, and/or in the process of trying to develop serious weapons of mass destruction.

(Hat tip: You know who you are.)

I also appreciate his admonition to defend against those leaders developing “serious weapons of mass destruction”—serious WMD are, presumably, distinguished from the frivolous ones that Saddam was acquiring. (Now I am making fun.)

So, that’s the challenge to you dear readers: Submit your Top 10 “Frivolous” Weapons of Mass Destruction.

I’ll start you off: The Paris Hilton album.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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