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War and peace occupy very indispensable place in strategic analysis and international relations. Different theories and perspectives including realism, liberalism, social constructivism as well as feminism have been highlighting war as an important factor behind drastic changes in global affairs. Consequently, national security also forces states to advance its defensive and offensive capability. In this way, countries have acquired chemical, biological as well as nuclear weapons too. Chemical weapon convention and biological weapon convention have explicitly banned the use of both types of weapons in warfare. But NPT prevents further proliferation by new country but it does not impose any time bound restriction on NWS to relinquish all its nuclear weapons. This article strives to explore the strategic importance of nuclear weapon as compared to biological and chemical weapons. Efficient and effective solutions diminishing adverse impacts of chemical and biological weapons reduce strategic importance of these WMDs. But world has no credible solution to drastically reduce the devastation of successful nuclear attack. This article uses qualitative data analysis to comparatively analyze strategic importance of WMDs.