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Saturday, 15 July 2006

'Arming the world

Not unexpectedly, the Arms Trade Resource Center is a great source of data such as this chart showing where arms from the United States are sold:




More recently, Amnesty International reported on the failure of a UN conference to agree on global controls of the sale of small arms due to a small number of vociferous opponents. Reuters has more details about the "total meltdown".