Here's an interesting quip from an incredibly able and intelligent, if slightly abrasive and ultra-Christian, practitioner and scholar of international politics:
It is time to think in terms of taking the offensive in the world struggle for freedom and of rolling back the engulfing tide of despotism. It is time to think less of fission bombs and more of establishing justice and ending terrorism in the world.
We should all feel relief if methods of mass destruction were abolished. But that would not mean "peace." It might mean that we should all die a little later rather than a little sooner; it might mean that we should die slowly rather than quickly; but it would not have much bearing on whether or not our world was to be one where myriads of human beings were degraded to the status of broken-spirited pack animals.
~Halcyondream~
see, 'terrorism' and 'mass destruction' have been in the vernacular for decades