8/02Estimated number of survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks in Japan now living in the United States: 1,000

American Society of Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors (Walnut, Calif.)

7/90Amount the U.S. government has paid Romania since 1980 for Soviet-made weapons for intelligence purposes: $40,000,000

Benjamin Weiser, Washington Post

    Estimated amount of the payment that went directly into the Ceausescu family’s private bank accounts: $8,000,000

Benjamin Weiser, Washington Post

11/02Ratio of Japanese killed in 1945’s U.S. atomic-bomb attacks to Iraqi children killed due to U.N. sanctions: 1:3

Harper’s research/UNICEF (N.Y.C.)

8/94Amount the Pentagon will spend this year on major weapons programs initiated before 1989: $18,247,100,000

Center for Defense Information (Washington)

8/93Average amount spent on weapons by Serbian forces each day since October 1991: $900,000

Jane’s Sentinel (Surrey, England)

    Average amount spent on weapons by Croatian and Muslim forces each day since then: $2,000,000

Jane’s Sentinel (Surrey, England)