Sentence examples for weapons era from inspiring English sources

If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of homo sapiens, they might well break their calendar into two eras: BNW (before nuclear weapons) and NWE (the nuclear weapons era).

Those familiar with the grim record of the 70 years of the nuclear weapons era will be all too aware that this is the kind of incident that has often come perilously close to igniting terminal nuclear war.

Most of the militias are armed with Soviet era weapons.

While the Kurdish forces have mostly Soviet era weapons, IS are using modern, US made, heavy weaponry seized from the Iraqi army.

VICE has been to SOFEX before, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, I wanted to see if the market has changed in the people-killing business, if there was more demand for weapons in this era of uncertainty and transition or if some of the generals and government officials in charge of purchasing were sweating a little more than usual.

These were mainly Soviet-era weapons from former Warsaw-pact countries.

Ukraine said it would get rid of its highly enriched uranium, left over from dismantled Soviet-era weapons.

Over 30 years the Egyptian armed forces have replaced Soviet-era weapons with top-notch American kit, such as F-16 fighters and M1 tanks.

One of the most impressive is an 1875 Gatling gun, part of an extensive display of Civil War-era weapons, including a collection of 291 bullets.

Mystetskyi Arsenal, or Art Arsenal, is housed in a former tsarist-era weapons arsenal just opposite the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, one of the centers of Orthodoxy.

Since 1992, the United States has spent some $5 billion to destroy Soviet-era weapons and to tighten control over those still in the Russian stockpile.