Then you have the German immigrants who become targets of the Prohibition war because that links arms with the anti-war movement in the teens.
Mr Sharif is facing charges of treason, attempted hijacking, kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, attempted murder and collecting arms to wage war against Pakistan.
The Cold War arms race long ago arrived in the patent arena.
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In 1941, the U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Bill, which enabled Britain to borrow money to buy additional food and arms during World War II.
In 1930, Britain, U.S., France, Italy and Japan began the London Naval Conference, aimed at halting the arms race and preventing war.
The cumulative impact of a decade of war in which those in the combat arms have experienced extensive and often multiple tours in war zones, exacting a harsh toll on many - both on the physical and psychological well-being of those serving and in terms of their families' sacrifice.
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The Cold War became an arms race, exactly what Kennan had hoped to prevent.
Both countries were at war and under arms embargoes at the time they bought the Argentine weapons.
Simple: the Cold War and the arms race with Soviet Russia.
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But as Yugoslavia began to disintegrate his party, which took directions from Serbia's authoritarian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, made preparations for war, distributing arms provided by the Yugoslav army.
Recently, Russia has accused the Ukrainians of supplying arms to Georgia during the war in August and said it would take this into account when forming its policy.
Presently, America and Russia meet a fifth of world uranium demand in the form of decommissioned nuclear weapons, taken from the stockpile amassed during the nuclear arms race of the cold war.
Which should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with game theory, a tool used to analyse the cold war's arms race and a favourite, perhaps not coincidentally, of Europe's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy.
By contrast, conditions in Japan's defense industry remain bleak: The industry is shrinking rapidly because of decreased domestic demand, and the situation is unlikely to improve as long as Japan's self-imposed Cold War-era arms export ban remains.
The CFE was one of the most significant arms control agreements of the Cold War years.
The problem of cyber arms control is akin to the greatest arms control failure of the Cold War, which still persists: the mass distribution of the most produced firearm in human history, the Kalashnikov AK-47.
Russian and U.S. experts alike agree that SDI was decisive in stimulating reforms and arms reductions, ending the Cold War peacefully, and bringing Americans the trillion-dollar peace dividend which became the basis of our post-Cold War economic boom.
Could Clausewitz have defined the 50 year protracted Cold War which entailed the largest arms build up ever?
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Ironically, Russian arms for Damascus might help stop a war.
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In 1996, the British government said a three-year inquiry into arms sales to Iraq before the Gulf War had cleared ministers of conspiracy and had revealed no official cover-up.
Since 1981 we've been committed to seeking fair and verifiable arms agreements that would lower the risk of war and reduce the size of nuclear arsenals.
It's the latest in a series of grim assessments of al-Assad's chances from Russia, which has been Syria's leading arms supplier since the days of the Cold War.
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Mr. BRYDEN: Neither country had the means to conduct the first war and both indebted themselves enormously with arms purchases, and the cost in terms of human lives was extraordinary.
But it is at last possible to see more or less how the western world's reorganised arms industry is going to look now that the cold war is over.
The Americans had supplied arms to Vietminh guerrillas who fought against the Japanese during the war.
These weapons are of greatest concern with regard to the potential for nuclear war, and they should be our focus for arms reduction.
The real stake is not any particular treaty, but the continuing mystique of arms control, epitomized by the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war in 1928.
Since World War II, Germany has had a political consensus restricting arms sales.
As it was under the original UN resolutions after the Gulf war, Iraq will be required to list all its arms to allow weapons inspectors to do their work.
Meanwhile, much of the stock of arms and ammunition available to the Tigers was lost in the recent war, so a new group would have to start from a poorly supplied base.
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