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Conventional weapon

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The terms conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refer to weapons whose ability to damage comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy and exclude weapons of mass destruction (e.g., nuclear, biological, radiological, and chemical weapons^[1]).

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Conventional weapons include small arms, defensive shields, light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as bombs, shells, rockets, missiles, and cluster munitions.^[2] These weapons use explosive material based on chemical energy, as opposed to nuclear energy in nuclear weapons.^[2]^[3] Conventional weapons are also contrasted with weapons of mass destruction and improvised weapons.

The Geneva Conventions govern the acceptable use of conventional weapons in war time. Conventional weapons are also regulated or prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Others are prohibited under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Ottawa Treaty (also known as the Mine Ban Treaty), and Arms Trade Treaty.

References

^ "conventional weapon" (PDF). JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. United States Department of Defense. April 2010. p. 106. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Conventional Weapons". Acronym Institute. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^ "Nuclear and Conventional Weapons". Nuclear Darkness & Nuclear Famine. Agence 3Cinq Inc. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

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