The arms industry is a massive global industry. Its products include guns, ammunition, missiles, military aircraft, and their associated consumables and systems. The arms trade is the exchange of arms or weapons among two or more parties, generally but not exclusively sovereign nations.
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Arms Trade Resource Center - Project of the World Policy Institute in New York City. Focuses on education and research around U.S. trade policies. Includes news, publications, events, and links.
Atlas of US Arms Trade - MOJO wire information on arms around the world including details on countries and companies involved in US arms trade. Arms lobby information and activists throughout the world.
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Campaign Against Arms Trade - CAAT - Campaigns for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade and the UK's role in it as a leading arms exporter. News, reports, information, newsletter, events diary, and suggestions for activism.
Meta Description: [ Campaign Against Arms Trade is working for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade, together with progressive demilitarisation within arms-producing countries ]
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade - COAT - National organization educating around Canada's arms trade and working towards conversion and peace issues. Includes articles, events, quarterly magazine, and contact information.
European Network Against Arms Trade - ENAAT - International coalition working against the arms trade. Includes publications, news, and reports from European countries and the EU.
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Global Black-Market Arms Trade Should Be Next Target of NGOs - Article from the Federation of American Scientists advocating a campaign to curb world-wide illicit arms trafficking in small arms and light weapons.
Guardian Special Report: The Arms Trade - Links and summaries of recent articles, with a focus on UK industry and regulatory concerns.
High-Caliber Carnival - With Middle East and Asian arms sales off, international arms makers head south to the Americas. Article from Mother Jones.
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Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfer (NISAT) - Aims to reduce the proliferation of small arms where they are likely to produce conflict, violence and human rights abuses. Contains searchable export/import database, publications, and arms transfer documentation.
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block the spread of small arms to areas where they are likely to produce conflict,
violence and human rights abuses. This website contains a research database on arms
exports, background information and statements. ]
Terror Trade Times - Information from Amnesty International UK on arms trade, including brokers, landmines, small arms, and non-lethal weapons.
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