conventional weapon

conventional weapon (plural conventional weapons)

1. A weapon of warfare which is not nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological in nature.
   • 1954 October 11, “Agreement on Germany”, in Time:

     Germany would agree to make no ABC (atomic, bacteriological and chemical) weapons, build only enough conventional weapons to arm its twelve divisions.

• weapon of mass destruction (WMD)

• conventional warfare
• conventional weaponry