Control Arms Report

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Arms Without Borders Why a globalised trade needs global controls

EXCERPT : of the US United Defense company by BAE Systems of the UK for $4.2bn.26 Defence mergers peaked in the mid-1990s. By 1998, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Gruman had become the giants of the global trade, and continue to be four of the top five arms companies in the world.