Weapons of Mass Destruction and the United States

How many times has a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) been used against the United States of America? It's an important, if trick, question. Basically, members of the Bush administration, the neoconservatives, or neocons, believed that the traditional means of preventing the use of WMDs by terrorists or rogue states, detterence and containment, wouldn't work. Unless Ameriva was free to strike first, or pre-empt, Amefica would be hit. The 9/11 attack was used as an argument to pr-empt in Iraq. Containment of Saddam was breaking down. Unless America attacked, pre- emptied, Saddam would use his WDMs against us.

   Lest you think much has changed, the policies written in 2002 and later extended, are being used to argue for new classes of weapons. America's WDMs are getting old and new ones are needed, as well as new classes if weapons never fielded before.

   As for the trick question, we should all remember that America is the only country to ever use WMDs: the two atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagisaki.