Conventional weapon

The conventional weapons (also called traditional weapons ) are the weapons which are neither biological, neither chemical, nor nuclear. This name their was given after the Second world war following the invention of the Nuclear weapon. This expression, which is a Rétronymie, is used in opposition to names Arme of massive destruction or NBC or nonconventional Arme.

There exist several international treaties which restrict the use of the conventional weapons:

• the Declaration of $the Hague of 1899, which establishes " the prohibition of the use of balls which open out or are flattened easily in the human body, such as the balls with envelope lasts whose envelope would not entirely cover the core or would be equipped with incisions".

• the Convention on some traditional weapons (CCAC), whose additional protocols are:

1. Le Protocol relating to the glares not localisables
2. Le Protocol on the prohibition or the limitation of the use of the mines, traps and others dispositifs
3. Le Protocol on the prohibition or the limitation of the use of the weapons incendiaires
4. Le Protocol relating to the laser aveuglantes
weapons
5. Le Protocol relating to the explosive remainders of guerre

• the Convention of Ottawa or Convention on the prohibition of the anti-personnel mines

• Since 2006, an international process of the same type as that which led to the signature of the Convention of Ottawa, began in order to prohibit the weapons at submunitions.

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