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The Geneva Conventions govern the acceptable use of conventional weapons in war. Certain of the weapons are regulated or prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Others are prohibited under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Ottawa Treaty (also known as the Mine Ban Treaty), and Arms Trade Treaty.
The arms industry, also known as the defense (or defence) industry, military industry, or the arms trade, is a global industry which manufactures and sells weapons and other military technology to a variety of customers, including the armed forces of states and civilian individuals and organizations.
The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is a multilateral treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional weapons. It entered into force on 24 December 2014. [ 1 ] 116 states have ratified the treaty, and a further 26 states have signed but not ratified it.
SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement signed on May 26, 1972. SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled. [2]
S.D.I. (video game) SDI (arcade game) Sea Power (video game) Seventh Fleet (video game) Shadow President; Siberian Strike; Sid Meier's Covert Action; The Silent Age; Silent Steel; Singularity (video game) Sniper Elite V2; Solidarność (video game) Solidarność: Menedżer Konspiracji; South of the Circle; Special Forces (video game) The Spy ...
A complementary arms deal would be brokered in Prague and Warsaw - for naval vessels and training - between November 1955 and April 1956 totaling £E40 million, while the Egyptian Office for Military Procurement would be set up initially in Prague, before relocating to Moscow, [3] presumably after the Czech cover for buying Soviet arms was no ...
Including their other budget WWII FPS games: World War II Sniper: Call To Victory (aka. Battlestrike: Call to Victory) (2004) World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (aka. Battlestrike: Secret Weapons of WWII) (2006) World War II Combat: Iwo Jima (aka. The Heat of War) (2006) Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt (2006) Battlestrike: Force of ...
At the end of World War II, George Orwell used the term in the essay "You and the Atom Bomb" published on October 19, 1945, in the British magazine Tribune. Contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war, he warned of a "peace that is no peace", which he called a permanent "cold war". [12]