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		<title>Missile Watch &#8211; November 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/12/missile-watch-november-2010.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<title>Report reveals $11.7 billion in arms deliveries in 2009, but sheds little light on individual exports</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/08/report-reveals-11-7-billion-in-arms-deliveries-in-2009-but-sheds-little-light-on-individual-exports.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/08/report-reveals-11-7-billion-in-arms-deliveries-in-2009-but-sheds-little-light-on-individual-exports.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<title>New Study Examines Global Trade in Ammunition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global trade in ammunition for small arms and light weapons is worth an estimated $4.3 billion, according to a comprehensive new study released today. Findings from the study, which is co-authored by Matt Schroeder of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), appears as a chapter in Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Defense Department sold more than $15 billion in arms in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2009, report reveals</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/u-s-defense-department-sold-more-than-15-billion-in-arms-in-the-first-quarter-of-fiscal-year-2009-report-reveals.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/u-s-defense-department-sold-more-than-15-billion-in-arms-in-the-first-quarter-of-fiscal-year-2009-report-reveals.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder Arms sold by the Defense Department to foreign recipients totaled more than $15 billion in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2009, according to a report obtained by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The quarterly report, which is dated February 2009 and is required by Section 36(a) of the Arms Export [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Recommendations for Improving Transparency in US Arms Transfers</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/01/eight-recommendations-for-improving-transparency-in-us-arms-transfers.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transparency is essential for effective congressional and public oversight of the arms trade, and the US government is widely (and rightly) praised for its reporting on arms exports. Yet there is also significant room for improvement. Reporting on US arms exports and international arms transfers funded or authorized by the US government is often incomplete, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documents obtained by FAS shed some light on Viktor Bout case, but key questions remain</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/documents-obtained-by-fas-shed-some-light-on-viktor-bout-case-but-key-questions-remain.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/documents-obtained-by-fas-shed-some-light-on-viktor-bout-case-but-key-questions-remain.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder Documents provided to the Federation of American Scientists by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York provide additional details about the case against alleged arms trafficker Viktor Bout, but many important questions remain (publicly) unanswered. Below is a brief summary of these documents and their significance. Background Viktor Bout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Venezuela’s Arsenals</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/08/securing-venezuela%e2%80%99s-arsenals.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/08/securing-venezuela%e2%80%99s-arsenals.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder The recent discovery of Swedish AT-4 anti-tank rockets sold to Venezuela in a Colombian rebel arms cache raises serious questions about Venezuela’s ability to safeguard its arsenal of modern weaponry, including dozens of advanced SA-24 shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles.  Given the potential threat posed by these missiles and other weapons in Venezuela’s rapidly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAS Obtains Key Report on US Arms Exports</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/fas-obtains-key-report-on-us-arms-exports.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/fas-obtains-key-report-on-us-arms-exports.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deliveries of arms through the Defense Department’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program decreased by nearly a billion dollars in fiscal year 2008, according to the most recent edition of the Annual Military Assistance Report. The report, which is often referred to as the “Section 655 Report” after the section in the Foreign Assistance Act that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Missile Plot had Little Chance of Success, but ‘Stinger Stings’ are Valuable Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/05/latest-missile-plot-had-little-chance-of-success-but-%e2%80%98stinger-stings%e2%80%99-are-valuable-tools.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/05/latest-missile-plot-had-little-chance-of-success-but-%e2%80%98stinger-stings%e2%80%99-are-valuable-tools.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the FBI thwarted an alleged terrorist plot to shoot down a military cargo plane with a Stinger missile.  According to a criminal complaint obtained by the New York Times, four men were arrested on charges of conspiring to use “a surface-to-air missile system to destroy military aircraft at the New York Air National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Urges the Senate to Take Up Key Convention on Illicit Arms Trafficking</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/obama-urges-the-senate-to-take-up-key-convention-on-illicit-arms-trafficking.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a press conference in Mexico City yesterday, President Obama urged the Senate to take up the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials, which is often referred to by its Spanish acronym, CIFTA. The Convention aims to curtail the illicit international trade in small arms by [...]]]></description>
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