We nicknamed it Dreadnought: it’s a self-guided tactical missile carrying a charge of a thousand kilos of matter and another thousand of anti-matter. Star Trek: Voyager s2e17: Dreadnought, Chakotay in briefing room
By working together we can create a weapon more quickly. If you escort us through your space we can perfect the weapon as we go. Star Trek: Voyager s3e26: Scorpion I, Janeway
I’ve reached an agreement with the Collective: I’m going to help them design a weapon against species 8472. In exchange they’ve granted us safe passage through their space. Star Trek: Voyager s4e1: Scorpion II
You’re aboard the Federation Timeship Relativity. No, for you it’s almost five hundred years later. We brought you here to help us solve a mystery: someone – we don’t know who – has planted a weapon aboard Voyager. It’s designed to fracture space/time within a radius of a hundred and fifty metres. Star Trek: Voyager s5e24: Relativity, Captain Braxton
You shouldn’t have done that. You lied. You said you were trying to transfer my neural patterns but you were really trying to shut me down. You tried to destroy me. I’m a weapon. Why didn’t you tell me. I couldn’t let you destroy me. I have to complete my mission. Star Trek: Voyager s5e25: Warhead, machine as Doctor
We’re already at the mercy of this weapon. This particular series has a class eleven intelligence factor. It’s warp capable. Fully armoured. Self-guiding. It has a maximum range of eighty light years. It can fly through an ion storm. An armada of hostile ships. And still finds its target. You can’t. But I can. ibid. blue bloke to Janeway & Chakotay
I’m not about to hand over a weapon of mass destruction to someone I just met. ibid. Janeway
Weapons are made to be touched. Carlos 2010 starring Edgar Ramirez & Alexander Scheer & Nora von Waldstatten & Ahmad Kaabour & Christoph Bach & Susanne Wuest & Anna Thalbach & Julia Hummer et al, director Olivier Assayas, him to her
He cares not what mischief he doth if his weapon be out. Henry IV II, Globe Theatre Sky Arts 2012, Mistress Quickly
You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands. William Shakespeare, II Henry VI III i 347, York to self
Men do their broken weapons rather use
Than their bare hands. William Shakespeare, Othello I iii 173-174, Duke
The weapons become more devilish and numerous. And the people in control more predictable. David Halpin, The Vortex Sucks Ever Louder, Alternative View II conference 31st May 2009
Weapons. The cutting edge of battle. From longbows to cruise missiles – the very tools soldiers need to fight – has always been a deciding factor in fighting wars. Saul David, Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War III: Raising Arms, BBC 2012
Large guns firing barrages from distance would change the very nature of war. ibid.
An alpine fortress stretching into northern Austria … Fear of wonder weapons was understandable. Nazi Underworld: Nazi Gold, National Geographic 2013
The old mining tunnels were ideal places to build weapons. ibid.
The world’s first long-range ballistic missile ... More than a thousand V-2s were fired at Britain … Killed almost three thousand people. ibid.
He wanted to erect buildings more splendid, more beautiful and larger than any that had ever been built before. But he hadn’t seen, or so he later said, the blood on the hands of his Fuhrer. He wanted to produce weapons that were more powerful, more deadly and more numerous than in any other war before. But he hadn’t seen, or so he later said, the catastrophe his commander brought upon Germany and the whole world. He did it all for Adolf Hitler, who, so he later said, had one friend – him. Albert Speer. Hitler’s Henchmen: Speer the Architect
We do our best to provide our sons, and our fathers, and our brothers, with the weapons which are necessary. Albert Speer
The armies that U S Grant and George McClellan led were the best equipped in history. The productive capacity and technical ingenuity of the North were now focused on weapons. Ken Burns, The Civil War: A Very Bloody Affair, PBS 1990
We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories ... And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them. George W Bush, Washington 30th May 2003
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction. George W Bush, Midwest Airlines Centre 3 October 2003
In two other sections, the report exposes the central government hypocrisy – that arms to Iraq were carefully restricted throughout the period. First, all sorts of weaponry, often of the most lethal kind, got to Iraq from Britain through ‘diversionary routes’, chiefly through Jordan. Arms sales from Britain to Jordan were 3,000 percent (about £500 million) higher in the 1980s than in the 1970s. This had nothing to do with the expansion of the Jordanian armed forces, which were actually contracting in the 1980s. Almost all the extra weaponry went on to Iraq, and there were other conduits too: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Portugal, Singapore, Austria.
Secondly, the ‘restricted’ policy became much less restricted for Iraq after the ceasefire of 1988. The entire British government was tempted by the honeypot which was opened up by Saddam Hussein as he expanded his vast armed forces after the peace treaty with Iran in 1988. The guidelines were changed to liberate a whole new category of defence sales, and no one was told about it. Paul Foot, Armed and Dangerous
In the eighteen months since the Gulf War ceasefire the UN has carried out more than forty weapons inspections throughout Iraq. The inspections have twice led to the brink of war. The inspectors are under orders to find and destroy all Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Their mission has not been easy. The Iraqis have done everything in their power to frustrate the work of the special commission. The UN inspectors have been forced to play an endless game of cat and mouse. Horizon: Hide and Seek in Iraq, BBC 1992
The Soviet Union and the West were keen to sell him [Saddam Hussein] all the arms he wanted. ibid.
Faced with the threat of military attack by the Coalition, the Iraqis agreed to let the Inspectors leave with the bulk of the documents. ibid.
One of the most dangerous places in the world. Alongside his multi-million-dollar nuclear weapons programme Saddam Hussein had built up a vast chemical weapons stockpile. ibid.
Muthana ... More than 100,000 poison gas canisters were littered across the site. It was the world’s largest chemical waste dump. ibid.
After each operation the Inspectors had to be decontaminated. ibid.
His [chemical] programme was badly run and standards were low. The weapons were crude. ibid.
Iraq: the biggest gun in the world ... to hit Middle Eastern targets ... British companies supplied many of its components. ibid.
The Special Commission is trying to ensure that the nuclear factories with their precision equipment will never work again. ibid.
There was no going back. The nuclear arms race had begun. During the ’50s and ’60s the superpowers built increasingly bigger bombs in a bid to defend themselves from each other. The result was an arsenal of weapons that could wipe humanity from the face of the earth. The threat of Armageddon was real. And many people lived with the daily fear of nuclear annihilation. The End of the World? A Horizon Guide to Armageddon, BBC 2011
Thousands took to the streets in protest against the apparent insanity of the arms race. ibid.
We did not – repeat did not – trade weapons or anything else for hostages. Nor will we. Ronald Reagan
There is sin and evil in the world, and we’re enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might. Our nation, too, has a legacy of evil with which it must deal. The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans …
A freeze would reward the Soviet Union for its enormous and unparalleled military buildup. It would prevent the essential and long overdue modernization of United States and allied defenses and would leave our aging forces increasingly vulnerable. And an honest freeze would require extensive prior negotiations on the systems and numbers to be limited and on the measures to ensure effective verification and compliance. And the kind of a freeze that has been suggested would be virtually impossible to verify. Such a major effort would divert us completely from our current negotiations on achieving substantial reductions. Ronald Reagan, speech 8th March 1983
A wave of lethal weapons from hand-guns to machine-guns is flooding the island from the US. Drugs Inc s3e8: Zombie Island, National Geographic 2013
The island is awash with drugs. ibid.
The life of a homeless addict is a constant struggle to find the money to prevent withdrawal. ibid.