Act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons, usually on a national scale

Disarmament

Disarmament

Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing <a href="/en/Weapon" title="Weapon" class="wl">weapons</a>. Disarmament generally refers to a country's <a href="/en/Military" title="Military" class="wl">military</a> or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of <a href="/en/Weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Weapons of mass destruction" class="mw-redirect wl">weapons of mass destruction</a>, such as <a href="/en/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon" class="wl">nuclear arms</a>. General and Complete Disarmament was defined by the <a href="/en/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly" class="wl">United Nations General Assembly</a> as the elimination of all WMD, coupled with the “balanced reduction of armed forces and conventional armaments, based on the principle of undiminished security of the parties with a view to promoting or enhancing stability at a lower military level, taking into account the need of all States to protect their security.”<a href="#cite_note-UN_First_Special_Session_on_Disarmament-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a>

<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt1">Act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons, usually on a national scale</div>

<figure class="wiki-thumb"><a href="/en/File:Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg/300px-Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" data-file-type="bitmap" height="400" width="300" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg/450px-Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg/600px-Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg 2x" alt="Schwerter_zu_Pflugscharen_-_Jewgeni_Wutschetitsch_-_Geschenk_der_Sowjetunion_an_die_UNO_-_1959.jpg"></a><figcaption> <a href="/en/United_Nations_Art_Collection" title="United Nations Art Collection" class="wl">Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares</a> in the <a href="/en/United_Nations" title="United Nations" class="wl">United Nations</a> garden (1957)</figcaption></figure>

Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms. General and Complete Disarmament was defined by the United Nations General Assembly as the elimination of all WMD, coupled with the “balanced reduction of armed forces and conventional armaments, based on the principle of undiminished security of the parties with a view to promoting or enhancing stability at a lower military level, taking into account the need of all States to protect their security.” 