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July 30, 2010

US Moves to Increase Arms Exports
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The Mc Clatchy Newspapers reports the Obama administration has begun
modifying export control regulations in an attempt to increase the US
share of the global arms sales market. The United States already
supplies about 30 percent of the world’s arms. Obama is asking Congress
to streamline the bureaucratic process for approving arms sales by
setting up a single new agency to oversee the exporting of weapons.
Critics say decontrolling weapons systems could fuel regional arms races
and allow technology to fall into the wrong hands.



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