Publication

Jan 2008

Unstable and ineffectively secured accumulations of surplus conventional ammunition pose a risk to public safety, a security threat to societies, and, ultimately, a challenge to the state’s monopoly on the use of force. Surplus is a problem in its own right, but one that must be understood as part of a wider set of safety and security risks that are inherent to national stockpiling of conventional ammunition.

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Author Holger Anders, Michael Ashkenazi, James Bevan, Ian Biddle, Pablo Dreyfus, Aaron Karp, Matt Schroeder, Adrian Wilkinson
Series Small Arms Survey Books
Publisher Small Arms Survey
Copyright © 2008 Small Arms Survey (SAS)
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