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conventional weapon
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Conventional weapon
The terms
conventional weapons
or
conventional arms
generally refer to
weapons
that are in relatively wide use that are not
weapons of mass destruction
(
e.g.
nuclear
,
biological
, and
chemical weapons
). Conventional weapons include
small arms
and light weapons,
sea
and
land mines
, as well as (non-weapons of mass destruction)
bomb
s,
shell
s,
rocket
s,
missiles
, and
cluster munitions
. These weapons use
explosive material
based on
chemical energy
, as opposed to
nuclear energy
in
nuclear weapons
.
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