Editing Conventional weapon (section)

== Proscription ==

Conventional weapons include [[small arms]], defensive shields, light weapons, [[Naval mine|sea]] and [[land mine]]s, as well as [[Aerial bomb|bomb]]s, [[Shell (projectile)|shell]]s, [[Rocket (weapon)|rocket]]s, [[missile]]s, and [[cluster munition]]s.<ref name=":0" /> These weapons use [[explosive material]] based on [[chemical energy]], as opposed to [[nuclear power|nuclear energy]] in [[nuclear weapon]]s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = http://www.acronym.org.uk/directory/proliferation-challenges/conventional-weapons|title = Conventional Weapons|website = Acronym Institute|access-date = 7 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160327202926/http://acronym.org.uk/directory/proliferation-challenges/conventional-weapons|archive-date = 27 March 2016|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nucleardarkness.org/nuclear/nuclearandconventionalweapons/|title=Nuclear and Conventional Weapons|publisher=Agence 3Cinq Inc.|website=Nuclear Darkness & Nuclear Famine|access-date=7 March 2016|archive-date=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310115201/http://www.nucleardarkness.org/nuclear/nuclearandconventionalweapons/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Conventional weapons are also contrasted with [[weapons of mass destruction]] and [[improvised weapon]]s.

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 [[Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction|Ottawa Treaty]] (also known as the Mine Ban Treaty), and [[Arms Trade Treaty]].