"atomic arms" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to weapons that use nuclear energy (i.e. nuclear bombs, missiles, or warheads). For example: "The fear of a nuclear war spread as countries began to develop atomic arms."
North Korea vexed another American administration determined to keep the isolated Stalinist nation from atomic arms.
Israel, a strong critic of the Iranian nuclear agreement, has neither confirmed nor denied its possession of atomic arms.
Four other nations have or are suspected of having atomic arms — Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea.
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, Yukiya Amano, left, said Monday that he could not guarantee that Iran was not trying to develop atomic arms.
Dr. Payne challenged the idea that small weapons would lower the bar for nuclear war, saying America had deployed very small atomic arms in the past.
Iran denies it seeks atomic arms, saying its nuclear fuel is only for energy-producing reactors and medical applications, and insists that its operations will continue.
"There might have been no atomic bombings, no nuclear arms race, and no Cold War," they write.
At Los Alamos, the half-built complex taking shape in Technical Area 55 is part of a sprawling plant to make atomic triggers for nuclear arms.
Later that year, Mr. Obama asked to accompany his Republican colleague on a trip to monitor Russian efforts to scrap nuclear arms and secure atomic materials from theft or diversion.
The third strand of the movie, after "Doctor Atomic" and Oppenheimer, is a history of atomic weaponry and the nuclear arms race between the United States and Germany and, later, the Soviet Union, related in a booming narrative voice-over.
Many horror films have featured the spider, including 1955's Tarantula, exploiting America's fear of atomic radiation during the nuclear arms race, the 1975 low-budget cult film The Giant Spider Invasion, and Kingdom of the Spiders, a 1977 film starring William Shatner, depicting the consequence of hungry spiders deprived of their natural food supply due to pesticides.
