International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

Related Quotes

We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons.

— Mohammed Aldouri

BiologicalBiological WeaponsChemical

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

— John Sununu

AboutBiologicalBiological Weapons

One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.

— Michael T. Flynn

AlBinBiological

The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

— Barton Gellman

AprilBiologicalCapabilities

Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

— Joe Lieberman

BiologicalBiological WeaponsChemical