nuclear arsenal
Nation's bomb collection
A nuclear arsenal is the stockpile of nuclear weapons held by a country or military power.
The term typically appears in discussions of international security, arms control, and deterrence: The treaty aims to reduce both nations' nuclear arsenals.
Arsenal implies not just the weapons themselves but the delivery systems and infrastructure to deploy them.
- red buttonUrgent action trigger
- siloAgricultural storage tower
- warheadMunition's explosive section
- Manhattan ProjectClandestine atomic weapons program
- atomic ageEra of harnessed fission
cruise missile · arms race · arms control · Cuban Missile Crisis · launch · dead hand · nonproliferation · hydrogen bomb · ballistic missiles · first strike · mutually assured destruction · bomber · ground zero · command center · fallout · blast · stockpile · ICBM
- Cold War militaryWarsaw Pact, Red Army, border troops, MiG fighters, MiG-21
- Military Affairsmilitary, defense secretary, War Department, defense strategy, military policy
- Military Powerarmy, navy, air force, marines, troops
- deterrentsguard dog, warning, security camera, penalty, padlock
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- nuclear waratomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, ICBM, mushroom cloud, first strike
nuclear arsenalconventional weapons
Non-WMD military equipment
conventional forces · small arms · infantry weapons · hand-to-hand combat · bows and arrows
nuclear arsenalnuclear disarmament
Reducing atomic weapon stockpiles
denuclearization · nuclear-free zone · disarmament · demilitarization · arms reduction