arms reduction
Shrinking military stockpiles
Arms reduction is the negotiated decrease of military weapons between nations or parties, typically through formal treaties.
The term usually appears in diplomatic and policy contexts: arms reduction talks, nuclear arms reduction.
Distinguished from disarmament, which implies complete elimination, arms reduction involves scaling back to agreed-upon levels while maintaining some military capability.
- demilitarizationRemoval of armed forces
- denuclearizationRemoval of atomic weapons
- nuclear freezeHalt on atomic weapons
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- bilateral agreementContract between two parties
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- arms controlnonproliferation, nuclear treaty, nuclear ban, weapons ban, test ban
- military policydefense strategy, defense budget, military spending, troop deployment, national security
- Post-Cold WarUSSR dissolution, Soviet collapse, German reunification, Eastern Bloc, Boris Yeltsin
- postwarrebuilding, demobilization, peace treaties, treaty signing, war reparations
- Arms Treatiesweapons ban, weapon bans, cluster munitions, cluster bombs, incendiary weapons
- Naval Diplomacycapital ships, diplomatic talks
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Escalating weapons accumulation between nations
proliferation · nuclear proliferation · rearmament · militarization · armament
arms reductionwarmongering
Promoting or inciting warfare
saber-rattling · military aggression · bellicosity · hawkishness · belligerence
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