What does CBW stand for?

Chemical and Biological Weapons

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government
Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In a report to parliament, the ministry said the communist North has one of the world s largest stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.

N Korea said to have 13 types of biological weapons

The approval comes in response to the need to establish a national entity to fulfill Iraq's commitments to international and regional treaties and agreements concerning the non-proliferation of mass destruction, chemical and biological weapons, as well as WMD-related material and equipment," Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Cabinet OKs non-proliferation bill

Asked what Washington hoped to achieve with the agreement, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said "I'll have to check," but stressed it was a key part of the "Proliferation Security Initiative" that aims to halt trade in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

US signs maritime pact with Mongolia

00 Reflecting a de facto recognition of the qualitative difference between the dangers of chemical and biological weapons and the true mass destruction threatened by nuclear weapons, this encyclopedia on weapons of mass destruction treats each in separate volumes.

Weapons of mass destruction; an encyclopedia of worldwide policy, ...

Mr Scarlett did not mention to Lord Hutton that one source of intelligence on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons capability had been discredited a month earlier.

BUTLER INQUIRY: Spy boss did not mislead Hutton'

He later claimed he had not realised Iraq only had short-range chemical and biological weapons.

MI6 boss 'to escape axe' in Butler report

The key US assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq ( that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons ( were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report released yesterday says.

Senate blasts CIA's intelligence on Iraq

It came as a former intelligence official who gave evidence to the Hutton Inquiry said crucial material which convinced spy chiefs Iraq was continuing to produce chemical and biological weapons may have been 'misinterpreted'.

PM 'not clear' on weapons