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Small Arms: Arms Control

Eric Berman, July 2008

The World Today, Volume 64, Number 7

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The land mines treaty of 1997 and the recent agreement to get rid of cluster munitions have outlawed whole categories of weapons. Small arms present an equally dangerous, but much more complex, problem. The United Nations will target it again this month.