By Will Geary
July 2018
The US is the world’s largest weapons exporter. President Trump makes it a priority to promote arms sales on his foreign trips. A researcher was curious to see what this pattern of arms sales looked like over time. He mapped the flows of arms transfers leaving the U.S. from 1950 to 2017. Click on
The underlying data is freely available from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Arms Transfers Database.
