ARMAMENTS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

armaments

noun

plural of armament

as in weapons

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In modern nuclear weapons, conventional explosives set off a fission reaction—the splitting of big atoms—whose intensity then ignites a fusion reaction that combines light atoms.

— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Obituaries for nuclear weapons simply misapprehend the role these arms have played since 1945.

— Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

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Hisamatsu, who is also UniJapan’s executive director, wants those three arms working more closely together and offering more to filmmakers and producers.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
When the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1990, a wall text informs, militias sold off weapons, many of which found their way to the Balkans; the Yugoslav Wars, then, were fought partly with Lebanese arms.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

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