| Oct 2006 | -
Factor by which the jobless rate among veterans under 25 of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars exceeds the U.S. average: 3
| Source:
Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington)
|
| Mar 2006 | - Percentage change since 1992 in the number of civil wars worldwide claiming more than a thousand lives: ‒80
| Source:
Human Security Centre (Vancouver)
|
| Mar 2006 | - Chance that a nation lacking resource wealth will have a civil war in any given five-year span: 1 in 100
| Source:
Paul Collier, Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, England)
|
| Mar 2006 | - Chance that a nation with resource wealth will have a civil war in a any given five-year span: 1 in 5
| Source:
Paul Collier, Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, England)
|
| Dec 2004 | - Minimum number of bullets the U.S. military purchased for use this year : 1,500,000,000
| Source:
Program Executive Office for Ammunition (Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.)
|
| Dec 2004 | - Number of major weapons systems the Pentagon has under development : 77
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
|
| Nov 2004 | - Ratio of suicides worldwide in 2001 to war deaths : 7:2
| Source:
World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland)
|
| Oct 2004 | - Compensation the U.S. government has paid Iraqis for wrongful deaths, injuries, and property damage since 2002 : $4,475,643
| Source:
Coalition Press Center (Baghdad)
|
| Jan 2004 | - Factor by which a U.S. Gulf War veteran is more likely to develop Lou Gehrig's disease than an average American : 2
| Source:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, Md.)
|
| Jan 2004 | - Estimated number of Americans who refuse to pay some or all of their federal income taxes to protest military spending : 2,000
| Source:
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (Brooklyn)
|
| Sep 2003 | -
Months after the first manned flight that Wilbur Wright identified "war" as a potential use for airplanes: 22
| Source:
James E. Tobin (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
|
| Aug 2003 | - Ratio of the estimated number of people killed worldwide by war last year to the number killed by traffic: 1:4
| Source:
World Health Organization (Geneva)
|
| Mar 2003 | - Chance that a U.S. soldier killed in the Persian Gulf War was a victim of enemy aggression: 1 in 3
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
|
| Feb 2003 | - Ratio of U.S. spending on tracking asteroids this year to spending on missile defense: 1:1,900
| Source:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington)/Missile Defense Agency (Washington)
|
| Jan 2003 | - Percentage of federal discretionary spending in 2001 devoted to "homeland security" or the Department of Defense: 51
| Source:
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
|
| Dec 2002 | - Organizers' estimated attendance at this fall's largest peace rallies in London and New York, respectively: 400,000, 25,000
| Source:
Stop the War Coalition (London)/Not in Our Name (N.Y.C.)
|
| Nov 2002 | - Ratio of Japanese
killed in 1945's U.S. atomic-bomb attacks to Iraqi children killed due to U.N. sanctions: 1:3
| Source:
Harper's research/UNICEF (N.Y.C.)
|
| Nov 2002 | - Chances an American believes the government should restrict professors from criticizing U.S. policy during war: 2 in 5
| Source:
The Freedom Forum (Arlington, Va.)
|
| Sep 2002 | - Percentage of U.S. college students who say they would try to evade the draft if one were called today: 37
| Source:
Luntz Research Companies (Arlington, Va.)
|
| Aug 2002 | - Number of names of U.S. peace and civil-rights activists in the CIA's Operation CHAOS database in 1973: 300,000
| Source:
U.S. Senate report, 4/26/76
|
| Jul 2002 | - Chance an American believes it is very likely that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will lead to World War III: 1 in 5
| Source:
FOX News/Opinion Dynamics (N.Y.C.)
|
| Jul 2002 | - Chance an American believes that peace in the Middle East will require a military victory: 1 in 2
| Source:
FOX News/Opinion Dynamics (N.Y.C.)
|
| Jun 2002 | - Ratio of the number of Israelis and Palestinians
killed in political violence last year to the number of Sri Lankans killed: 2:3
| Source:
B'Tselem (Jerusalem)/Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Solna, Sweden)
|
| Jun 2002 | - Ratio of the number of Americans killed by terrorists last year to the estimated number who died from food poisoning: 3:5
| Source:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)/Harper's research
|
| Jun 2002 | - Weeks during which the U.S. government suspended investment of federal workers' pension funds this year: 2
| Source:
U.S. Department of the Treasury
|
| May 2002 | - Annual number of "accidents or incidents" that Nevada estimates these trucks will be involved in through 2048: 54
| Source:
Agency for Nuclear Projects, State of Nevada (Carson City)/Radioactive Waste Management Associates (N.Y.C.)
|
| Mar 2002 | - Estimated number of Afghan civilians killed by U.S. bombing last year: 3,950
| Source:
Marc W. Herold, University of New Hampshire (Durham)
|
| Mar 2002 | - Number of the world's 25 civil wars that have been going on for more than ten years: 17
| Source:
Harper's research
|
| Feb 2002 | - Estimated number of acres of Civil War battlefield that were lost to development last year: 50,000
| Source:
The Civil War Preservation Trust (Washington)
|
| Dec 2001 | - Number of years since 1776 in which no nation was at war: 0
| Source:
Harper's research/Correlates of War Project, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
|
| Apr 2001 | - Average number of people killed in Laos each year since 1973 by U.S. bombs left over from the Vietnam War: 28
| Source:
Embassy of Laos (Washington)
|
| Dec 2000 | - Average number of Palestinians
killed per day by Israeli security forces in the six years preceding the 1993 Oslo accord: 0.4
| Source:
Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)/Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (Jerusalem)/Harper's research
|
| Dec 2000 | - Number of times that visiting foreign defense ministers have been injured by the Pentagon's security system since 1998: 2
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
|
| Dec 2000 | - Number of New York Times articles in 1990, 1992, and 1999, respectively, that mentioned the “peace dividend”: 152, 64, 9
| Source:
Harper's research
|
| Sep 2000 | - Number of national and independent armies fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 12
| Source:
U.S. Department of State
|
| Aug 2000 | - Percentage of refugees from the Bosnian
war who have not returned to their homes since 1995's peace accord: 39
| Source:
U.S. General Accounting Office
|
| Aug 2000 | - Estimated number of years it will take to remove the 600,000 active mines in Bosnia-Herzegovina: 30
| Source:
United Nations Association of the USA (N.Y.C.)/U.S. Department of State
|
| Jul 2000 | - Amount Ethiopia has spent on war with Eritrea since 1998: $300,000,000
| Source:
U.S. Department of State
|
| May 2000 | - Years before Indonesia hired Henry Kissinger last winter that he was the U.S. adviser on its invasion of East Timor: 23.5
| Source:
Indonesian Consulate General (N.Y.C.)
|
| Feb 2000 | - Percentage of Chechnya's air force destroyed last September when Russia
bombed a single plane: 100
| Source:
Embassy of the Russian Federation (Washington)
|
| Jan 2000 | - Pounds of armor worn by a European knight in the 11th and 13th centuries, respectively: 71, 90
| Source:
John France, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, N.Y.)
|
| Jan 2000 | - Chance that a soldier who died in combat in the 20th century was American: 1 in 72
| Source:
Center for Defense Information (Washington)
|
| Jan 2000 | - Chance that a civilian who died in a 20th-century war was American: 1 in 62,000
| Source:
Center for Defense Information (Washington)
|
| Nov 1999 | - Amount by which the President's ten-year defense budget exceeds that of House Democrats: $158,000,000
| Source:
Economic Policy Institute (Washington)
|
| Nov 1999 | - Amount by which the President's ten-year defense budget exceeds that of House Republicans: $206,000,000
| Source:
Economic Policy Institute (Washington)
|
| Oct 1999 | - Percentage of Americans who say they're not sure whether the U.S. or Slobodan Milosevic won the war in Kosovo: 40
| Source:
Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll (N.Y.C.)
|
| Aug 1999 | - Ratio of the amount J. P. Morgan paid a man to fight in his place in the Civil War to what he spent on cigars in 1863: 1:1
| Source:
Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier, Random House (N.Y.C.)
|
| Jul 1999 | - Number of NATO
bombs that have fallen on Bulgaria since the war in Kosovo began: 2
| Source:
NATO (Brussels)
|
| Jul 1999 | - Ratio of people killed this year in the Kosovo
war to those killed in the Ethiopian-Eritrean war: 1:10
| Source:
U.S. Department of State/Harper's research
|
| Jun 1999 | - Number of months after the Civil War ended that slaves in Texas were told of their emancipation: 2
| Source:
Juneteenth U.S.A. (Houston)/Council of State Governments (Lexington, Ky.)
|
| Feb 1999 | - Number of survivors of Spanish-American War soldiers who received Veterans Department benefits last year: 1,028
| Source:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
|
| Jan 1999 | - Hours after Serbian
president
Slobodan Milosevic agreed to last fall's Kosovo peace plan that he closed two newspapers: 12
| Source:
Balkan Media &Policy Monitor (The Hague, Netherlands);
|
| Jan 1999 | - Percentage of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency's one-page biography of Chile's Augusto Pinochet that is classified: 90
| Source:
National Security Archives (Washington);
|
| Nov 1998 | - Number of Sudanese factories besides the one the U.S. bombed last August that had U.N. approval to export drugs to Iraq: 0
| Source:
United Nations (N.Y.C.)
|
| Oct 1998 | - Ratio of non-Americans to Americans killed in U.S.-embassy bombings since 1983: 10:1
| Source:
U.S. Department of State
|
| Oct 1998 | - Ratio of civilian U.N. workers killed in the line of duty this year to soldiers killed in U.N. peacekeeping operations: 5:2
| Source:
United Nations (N.Y.C.)
|
| Sep 1998 | - Average annual U.S. spending on nuclear-arms programs during the Cold War: $3,700,000,000
| Source:
Natural Resources Defense Council (Washington)
|
| Aug 1998 | - Number of years the U.S. trained Pakistani
nuclear-research scientists as part of the “Atoms for Peace” program: 19
| Source:
Arms Control Association (Washington)
|
| Aug 1998 | - Ratio of average worldwide military spending per conflict during the 1980s to spending per conflict in the 1990s: 7:5
| Source:
The Worldwatch Institute (Washington)
|
| Jul 1998 | - Hours after an announcement that 29% of U.S. plant species were threatened by extinction that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared war on weeds: 5.5
| Source:
Montana Bureau of Land Management (Billings)
|
| Jun 1998 | - Years after the Rwandan
massacre that President Clinton admitted “we did not act quickly enough”: 4
| Source:
National Security Council
|
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