Iranian democrats contend that if Iran were a democracy, its nuclear weapons would not threaten anyone.

They were armed, but their weapons were at their sides, ready but not threatening.

These illegal weapons threaten international peace and security.

Semiautomatic weapons on city streets threaten whole communities and they alarm the police.

Three other weapons threatened me as well.

The men displayed no weapons but slapped the women and threatened to kill them, Inspector Morley said.

Nuclear weapons would threaten whole naval carrier groups in open generalised combat.

That would be done and is done by every democratic state, because weapons threaten the stability of democracy.

It seems of no account that no war fought by a nuclear power has seen such a weapon even threatened.

Biological weapons are threatening to become part of the asymmetrical warfare which typifies the fight against terrorism.