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The secrecy surrounding the development of new weapons sometimes conflicts with the weapon developers’ hype of new products resulting in common advancements being mislabelled as Wonder weapons.

The term is often used to describe weapons that were being developed in Nazi Germany just prior to the end of the war, such as the Wasserfall missile, the Messerschmitt Me 264 and the German Atomic bomb led by Werner Heisenberg.

Many Wonder weapons of the past become the conventional weapons of later conflicts--this has happened to dreadnoughts, tanks, long-range missiles, and might be beginning to happen to tactical nuclear weapons. More recently, offensive developments in electromagnetism with lasers, microwave, or radio frequency radiation are often termed wonder weapons.