weapons stockpile
Stored military arms
A weapons stockpile is an accumulated reserve of arms, ammunition, or military equipment held for future use.
Governments maintain strategic stockpiles for national defense; militant groups build clandestine ones.
The term often appears in contexts of arms control, disarmament, or conflict: inspectors discovered a hidden weapons stockpile, the treaty requires reducing nuclear weapons stockpiles.
- nuclear arsenalStockpile of atomic bombs
- arsenalStockpile of munitions
- armoryMilitary weapons storehouse
- cacheConcealed storage spot
- munitionsMilitary weapons and ammunition
ordnance · bunker · ammo · depot · military base · hoard · warheads · missiles · nuclear · explosives · vault · bomb shelter · military · storage · hidden · secret · surplus · artillery
- arms controlarms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, arms deals, arms reduction
- military readinessreadiness, mobilization, deployment, drills, training
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
weapons stockpiledisarmament
Reducing or eliminating weapons
denuclearization · demilitarization · arms reduction · nuclear disarmament · decommissioning
weapons stockpilepeace dividend
Resources freed by military cuts
demilitarized zone · nuclear-free zone · pacifism · peaceful coexistence
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