nuclear arms
Fission-based arsenal
Nuclear arms are weapons that derive their destructive force from nuclear reactions—fission, fusion, or both.
The term encompasses bombs, warheads, and missiles capable of devastating entire cities.
Nuclear arms typically appear in discussions of international security and nonproliferation: talks to limit nuclear arms, the nuclear arms race.
The phrase is roughly synonymous with nuclear weapons.
- weapons banProhibition on armaments
- enriched uraniumIsotope-concentrated nuclear fuel
- warheadMunition's explosive section
- fissionNuclear breakup releasing energy
- atomic bombFission-triggered mass destruction device
Manhattan Project · plutonium-239 · Trinity · chain reaction · fallout · proliferation · Cold War · existential risk · Oppenheimer · Hiroshima · Cuban Missile Crisis · duck and cover · moral responsibility · critical mass · Nagasaki · ground zero · missile · missile silo
- Nuclear Armsnukes, atom bomb, hydrogen bombs, H-bombs, ballistic missile
- Nuclear Treatiestreaty signing, treaty compliance, bilateral talks, on-site inspection, verification
- armsguns, rifles, pistols, swords, firearms
- military strategymilitary doctrine, combat tactics, tactical maneuvers, war planning, defense policy
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis, Eastern Bloc
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
nuclear armsconventional weapons
Non-WMD military equipment
conventional arms · conventional forces · small arms · infantry weapons · rifles
nuclear armspeashooter
Tube for blowing small projectiles
BB gun · slingshot · pocket knife · non-lethal weapons · rubber bullets
nuclear armsnuclear disarmament
Reducing atomic weapon stockpiles
denuclearization · disarmament · arms reduction · nonproliferation · demilitarization
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