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weapon of mass destruction

weapon with the capacity to indiscriminately kill a very large number of people and cause great physical, economic and environmental damage
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Summary

weapon of mass destruction is a weapon type[1]. It draws 5,814 Wikipedia views per month (weapon type category, ranking #79 of 694).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: weapon[3]
  • Commons category: Weapons of mass destruction[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Weapons of mass destruction[5]
  • Topic has template: Template:Weapons of mass destruction[6]
  • Has effect: technology risk[7]
  • Short name: WMD[8], AAD[9], ADM[10], MØV[11], ОМП[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]

Why It Matters

weapon of mass destruction has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

University of West Bohemia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → wmd
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: wmd, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289965692|wmd (#289965692)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004781-zbrane-hromadneho-niceni
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004781-zbrane-hromadneho-niceni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  3. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect → technology risk
    Subclass of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → weapon type
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 13357, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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