Conventional weapon

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Conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refers to weapons in relatively wide use and which are not weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear weapons, chemical or biological weapons. Conventional weapons include small arms and light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as (non-nuclear) bombs, shells, rockets, missiles and cluster munitions.

The acceptable use of all types of conventional weapons in war time is governed by the Geneva Conventions. Certain types of conventional weapons are also regulated or prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Other are prohibited under the Cluster Munitions Convention and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.

See also

• Weapons of mass destruction, land mines and cluster bombs.
• Explosive material

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