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[[File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|thumb|Swords found together with the [[Nebra sky disk]]. Circa 1600 BC.]]A '''weapon''', arm, or armament is any [[machine]] used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems. | [[File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|thumb|Swords found together with the [[Nebra sky disk]]. Circa 1600 BC.]]A '''weapon''', arm, or armament is any [[machine]] used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems. | ||
Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and [[warfare]]. | Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and [[warfare]]. | ||
In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary. | |||
Weapons range in complexity from from simple implements such as clubs, swords and guns, and to complicated modern intercontinental ballistic missiles, biological and cyberweapons. | |||
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File:Ein Heyduck.jpg|link=Brandishing (nonfiction)|Heyduk believes in [[Brandishing (nonfiction)|brandishing]] for [[Brandishing (nonfiction)|brandishing]]'s sake. | |||
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== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Brandishing (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[War (nonfiction)]] | * [[War (nonfiction)]] | ||
* [[Weaponization (nonfiction)]] | * [[Weaponization (nonfiction)]] | ||
Revision as of 16:20, 14 June 2016
Swords found together with the Nebra sky disk. Circa 1600 BC.
A weapon, arm, or armament is any machine used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems.
Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare.
In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary.
Weapons range in complexity from from simple implements such as clubs, swords and guns, and to complicated modern intercontinental ballistic missiles, biological and cyberweapons.
Fiction cross-reference
Heyduk believes in brandishing for brandishing's sake.
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Weapon @ Wikipedia