Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP) Exam 2 Practice

The key idea is where the legal definition of a weapon of mass destruction comes from. In this material, that definition is found in federal statute 18 U.S.C. 2332a, which specifies that a weapon of mass destruction is any device or weapon designed to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release or dissemination of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear agent, or a device designed to release such agents. This makes it the official statutory source for the WMD definition used in federal prosecutions. The other items aren’t statutes that define WMD. A Homeland Security Presidential Directive provides policy and coordination guidance, not a legal definition, and Crisis Management and Consequence Management are emergency-management concepts rather than statutory definitions.