Therefore, the unconventional weapons policy community should develop new solutions to avoid perpetuating old cycles. As the Cold War ended, there was a lull in unconventional weapons policy discussions. This resulted in widely publicized, redundant, and untested hypothetical scenarios that drowned out unconventional weapons (and terrorism) expertise. Meanwhile, outside experts and officials once again grab at the steering wheel of unconventional weapons policy, as resources to help corral the conversation towards effective policy erodes. Current debates attempting to redefine chemical weapons and biological weapons run the risk of rendering these terms empty, too.