The Germans have become particularly adept at clearing stocks of chemical weapons left over from the first and second world wars.
While I never believed Saddam could have concealed a continued nuclear program, I too thought there could still be some biological and chemical weapons left from Iraq's war with Iran.
While I never believed Saddam could have concealed a continued a nuclear program, I too thought there could still be some biological and chemical weapons left from Iraq's war with Iran.
Once again a deranged man has walked into an American school armed with powerful semi-automatic weapons and left a trail of death and heartache in his wake.
So if the world got it wrong, Saddam got it wronger: his bluffing over what have turned out to be nonexistent weapons has left him out of power and in jail.
The BBC's Russian affairs analyst Steven Eke says when weapons are left out of the equation, trade between Russia and India has actually fallen to its lowest level for more than two decades.
Weapons and ammunition have been left off the supply list, though Japanese units will be allowed to transport ammunition and weapons for American forces, provided the stocks come from American depots.
He admits he is in the minority among his friends in opposing full independence, having balked at the SNP's "pacifist" stance on nuclear weapons and other "left wing" SNP policy positions, despite being a Democrat supporter.
So the tribal leaders, in Samarra especially, were left with no weapons, no power.
However, the war left Libya awash with weapons, adding to the country's security challenges.
Speaking on BBC's Breakfast with Frost, Seamus Mallon said the arms issue was poisoning the political process as it left the people holding weapons, holding the cards.
South Sudan is one of the world's poorest regions - it gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 and has hardly any roads, railways, schools or clinics following two decades of conflict, which have left it awash with weapons.
If the Russians are right, the weapons inspectors do not have much time left.
U.N. weapons monitors returned to Baghdad a week after they left the country to avoid threatened U.S.-led airstrikes.
These are all very important, but nevertheless, we are left at that point with Saddam Hussein building potential nuclear weapons, having chemical capability -- which he's used before -- and an enormous army that could be a threat, once again, very rapidly.
Donald Rumsfeld, America's defence secretary, said on Tuesday that Iraq may have destroyed its chemical and biological weapons before the invasion, although there were still hundreds of suspected sites left in the country to investigate.
The United Nations team appointed to monitor Baghdad's compliance with the agreement left Iraq in 1998 after the government ceased co-operation with the weapons inspectors.
With no designated spawn point of anti-vehicle weapons like the missile pod or Spartan laser that could counter it, our team was left with practically nothing we could fight it with as our own vehicles were being stolen or destroyed while we were dead.
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he embraced a long-held view of the American Left that the best way to deal with the fearsome danger posed by nuclear weapons was to reduce their numbers and then ultimately get rid of all such weapons.
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If we are lucky, we will be left with a far-less-resilient "Dyad" equipped with obsolescing, untested weapons.
After all, if the safety and reliability of these weapons are allowed to degrade -- how safe and reliable is any complex piece of machinery if left untested for years?
Between 1941 and 1945, merchant ships left Loch Ewe - as well as the Clyde and ports in Iceland - to deliver supplies, weapons and ammunition.
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Between 1941 and 1945, merchant ships left Loch Ewe in Wester Ross as well as the Clyde and ports in Iceland to deliver supplies, weapons and ammunition.
"There have definitely been times where our weapons on the outside have been wide open downfield and we didn't give Mark enough time, " said left guard Matt Slauson.
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