WEAPONS

(See also Disarmament; Guns; Mines [Weapons]; Nuclear Weapons; Space Weapons)

abolition: g99 8/22 10-11; g89 6/8 9-10

“swords into plowshares” (Isa 2:4): g01 3/22 11; ip-1 45-48

advanced: g92 6/8 29

aircraft: g 10/07 22-23

fighter aircraft: g87 10/22 30; g86 11/22 31

ammunition production: g 12/07 29

arms control:

small arms and light weapons: g01 3/22 9-11

arms race: g86 5/22 5-8

comments by Mohandas Gandhi: w86 10/1 16

arms trade: g01 3/8 14; w95 10/15 6; g92 2/22 28; g89 6/8 2-8

after Cold War: g 4/06 29; g96 4/22 4-5

appreciation for Awake! articles: g89 10/22 30

countries with highest sales: g89 11/22 29

effect on people: g89 6/8 4-5

end forever: g89 6/8 9-10

factor in length of Iran-Iraq war: g88 5/8 30

Germany, Federal Republic of (West): g89 7/22 29

importance to world economy: re 263-264; g89 6/8 6

increase: g 1/11 14; g92 7/22 28; g87 6/22 12

percentage by country: g86 7/22 27

shady business: g89 6/8 8

United States: g91 11/8 28

Witness attitude toward participation in: g89 6/8 10

battleships:

Bismarck (Nazi warship): g87 10/8 10-12

Hood (British warship): g87 10/8 10

Bible times: it-1 168-172

battering ram: it-1 264-265, 865

battle-ax: it-1 170

bow and arrow: it-1 156-157, 170; it-2 360

chariot: it-1 427-428

dagger: it-1 169

dart: it-1 170

handstave: it-1 170

javelin: it-1 169-170

lance: it-1 169

sling: it-1 170; it-2 981; w14 5/1 11; nwt 1711

spear: it-1 169

sword: w18.05 31; it-1 169

war club: it-1 170

biological and chemical: g 9/12 6; g02 5/8 7-8; g02 9/22 3-11; g99 8/22 6

boomerangs: g87 1/22 21-23

chart “Military Power of Major Nations and Blocs”: w86 10/15 4

Christian view:

armed employment: w05 11/1 31; w05 12/15 30

carrying weapons for self-defense: g95 9/22 13-14

weapons formed against “will have no success” (Isa 54:17): w19.01 6-7; w08 9/15 7-8; w08 11/15 28; w07 12/15 21-25; ip-2 229-230

cost: re 250; g89 6/8 2-6

1951-1991: w94 3/1 19

by country: g86 7/22 27

comparison to education budgets: g89 6/8 5

comparison to health needs: g01 7/22 31; g96 7/22 28

during 1980’s: w94 3/1 19

economic effects: g89 6/8 4-5, 28

every [weapon] made signifies a theft from those who hunger, those who are cold (quote): g89 6/8 5

military spending: mrt article 82; g 4/10 30; w07 8/15 23; re 94, 250; g 1/06 20; g 4/06 29; g01 7/22 31; g96 4/22 4; g96 11/8 29; w94 3/1 19; g91 11/22 28; g91 12/8 29; g89 6/8 4-6, 28

percent needed to abolish world hunger: g87 4/22 30

per day: w88 12/15 10

per minute: re 94; w89 12/15 4; g89 6/8 6; w87 3/1 26; g87 7/22 14; w86 1/15 4

per person: g86 7/22 27

per second: g86 7/22 27

per year: gm 139; g88 11/8 29; w86 4/15 16

since World War II: w86 10/1 16; g86 3/22 30

worldwide: g96 11/8 29; g87 7/22 14; g86 3/22 30

discussion: g02 5/8 4-8

Egypt (ancient): it-1 693-694

experiences:

arms dealer: w08 8/1 30

firebombs:

effect on Hamburg, Germany, during World War II: g86 5/22 3

Jehovah’s, at Armageddon: w05 12/1 6; ws 156-159

life story “From Building Weapons to Saving Lives”: w00 8/1 24-28

missiles: g86 5/22 5-6

missile that penetrates earth before detonating: g88 8/8 29

submarines carrying: w88 10/1 4

U.S.-USSR missile-reduction treaty (1987): g89 1/22 29; w88 6/15 27; g88 5/8 29; g88 8/22 3; g88 9/22 29

V-1 and V-2: g04 12/22 21; g87 5/8 18

Nobel, Alfred: g02 5/8 3-5, 8

nonlethal weapons: g93 6/8 28

personal:

at school: w94 7/15 3-4

Brazil buys from populace to make playground equipment: g05 9/22 28

self-defense: g95 9/22 13-14

scientists working on:

number: re 94; g89 6/8 6; w87 3/1 26; w86 2/15 3; g86 5/22 8

small arms and light weapons: w04 1/1 4; g03 2/22 28; g02 5/8 5; g01 3/22 3-11

Objective Individual Combat Weapon: g01 3/22 8

space weapons: w88 10/1 7

Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”): g88 8/22 3, 6-7

spiritual: w18.05 27-31; it-1 172; w04 2/15 27-28; w02 12/1 22

not omitting any: w88 9/1 17

“of righteousness on the right hand and on the left” (2Co 6:7): w90 9/15 27

“sword of the spirit” (Eph 6:17): w21.03 29; w18.05 31; w88 9/1 17-18

‘weapons of our warfare not fleshly’ (2Co 10:4): it-2 1169

stockpile: g90 10/22 28

overkill: g87 7/22 14

submarines: w88 10/1 4, 6-7

unexploded munitions from previous wars: w92 4/1 11; g91 3/8 28

ability of some plants to break down explosives: g97 9/22 29

dumped in sea: g00 8/8 29; g93 1/22 28-29

land mines: g94 8/8 31

Namibia: g92 6/8 28-29

World War I: g02 1/8 28; g99 2/8 28-29

World War II: g02 1/8 28; g98 3/8 26-27; g94 2/8 28; g88 10/8 30

what happens to, after wars end: g01 3/22 6-8

World War I: gm 138; w87 3/1 26