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weapons inspector en · NOUN

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1. An official (originally and chiefly one working for the United Nations) whose job is to examine the potential military research sites or equipment of a given state, as a means of ensuring disarmament or assessing compliance with arms treaties etc.
   • The UN security council is edging towards a compromise resolution on Iraq demanding unfettered access for weapons inspectors to Saddam Hussein's eight presidential palaces. 2002 October 10, The Guardian:
   • As a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, I worked closely with the IAEA to investigate Iraq’s past nuclear weapons programme, and I have confidence in the IAEA’s ability to implement the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 2015, Scott Ritter, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 13:

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