The rapid industrialization that took place after 1930 provided the infrastructure necessary for developing an arms industry.

Located in São José dos Campos, the CTA became the focal point for the arms industry.

Brazil's arms industry nearly collapsed after 1988, as a result of the termination of the Iran-Iraq War ( 1980 – 88 ), a reduction in world demand for armaments, and the decline in state support for the industry.

By late 1994, it appeared that Brazil's arms industry would not disappear completely.

Contributing to the Dolchstoßlegende, its failure was blamed on strikes in the arms industry at a critical moment of the offensive, leaving soldiers without an adequate supply of materiel.

Only in the 1980s did it begin to develop a modest domestic arms industry as the Directorate of Army Industries manufactured rifle ammunition, uniforms, boots, and other consumable items.

The NSBO was completely suppressed and the DAF became little more than an arm of the state for the more efficient deployment and disciplining of labour to serve the needs of the regime, particularly its massive expansion of the arms industry.

The use of such weapons is tightly restricted to the film industry under direct supervision of the master of arms holding the permit, and the weapons are often altered so they will not fire " factory " ammunition, but rather only special " light-primer " blank cartridges produced specifically for the film industry.

Brazil has the second largest arms industry in the Western Hemisphere.

Guns can be used by law enforcement, the military and paramilitary, and security personnel protecting property of state importance ( including the arms industry, financial institutions, storage of resources, and scientific research institutions ).

He focused on arms manufacturing, as the US railroad market purchased from its own growing steel industry.

* Demilitarization of the former Wehrmacht forces and the German arms industry, however, the circumstances of the Cold War soon led to Germany's Wiederbewaffnung including the re-establishment of both the Bundeswehr and the National People's Army resp.

The country has a large and fully indigenous arms industry, producing most of its own military equipment with only few types of weapons imported.

The Soviet Union expanded its indigenous arms industry as part of Stalin's industrialization program in the 1920s and 1930s.

Tungsten's resistance to high temperatures and its strengthening of alloys made it an important raw material for the arms industry.

Less important are the arms industry and glass, but these have a long tradition in Bohemia.

The Buchenwald concentration camp provided slave labour for local industry ( arms industry of Wilhelm-Gustloff-Werk ).

The opening of Russian Tsarist archives after World War I led to some insights into the tactics of the arms industry.

By gaining control of the daily newspaper, Excelsior, he could be assured of editorials favorable to the arms industry.

As personal computer hardware speeds improved at a rapid pace in the late 1990s, it created an " arms race " between companies in the video game industry, according to Wired News.

* Ammunition: Production fell markedly in 1944 and the arms industry shipped bombs and shells packed partly with rock salt, as Germany ran out of nitrate, a vital ingredient.

BIS's activities include regulating the export of sensitive goods and dual-use technologies in an effective and efficient manner ; enforcing export control, anti-boycott, and public safety laws ; cooperating with and assisting other countries on export control and strategic trade issues ; assisting U. S. industry to comply with international arms control agreements ; monitoring the viability of the U. S. defense-industrial base ; and promoting federal initiatives and public-private partnerships to protect the nation's critical infrastructures.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.

He feels, therefore, that to seek a discontinuity in the arms policy of the United States is the least risky path our government can take.

Our complaint is that in many crucial areas the Kennedy programs are not too large but too small, most seriously in regard to the conventional arms build-up and in aid and welfare measures.

In the third Push-Pull Super-Set the `` push '' exercise is the widegrip Pushup Between Bars, while the `` pull '' exercise is the Moon Bench Lateral Raise with bent arms.

Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

A man with so big and so staggeringly developed a torso and such long and powerful arms is expected to stand taller than five feet five.

Even Norway, despite daily but limited manifestations against atomic arms in the heart of this northernmost capital of the alliance, is today closer to the NATO line.

A man with a baby in his arms stood there pleading for his wife who is on the other side with the rest of the family.

Also, when the patient is standing with arms and hands extended toward the physician, if the eyes are closed, the patient's finger will tend to " fall down " and then be restored to the horizontal extended position by sudden muscular contractions ( the " ataxic hand ").

Today, Israel is a major arms supplier to the country.

One of the highlights of the facade is a tower topped with a cross of four arms oriented to the cardinal directions.

There is a second bulb-shaped structure similarly reminiscent of a thalamus flower, which is represented by a cross with arms that are actually buds announcing the next flowering.

At one end of the shank there are two arms, carrying the flukes, while the stock is mounted to the other end, at ninety degrees to the arms.

Relations between the two countries have not always been cordial due to the former French government's policy of supporting militant separatists in Angola's Cabinda province and the international Angolagate scandal embarrassed both governments by exposing corruption and illicit arms deals.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) is an anti-nuclear organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The crisis served the first documented instance of the threat of mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement.

* Conference on Disarmament, an international forum that negotiates multilateral arms control and disarmament agreements

Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the 1960 U-2 incident and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadership in the nuclear arms race and the Space Race, and his failure to publicly oppose McCarthyism.

According to international conventions governing the laws of war, small arms are defined ( with some exceptions ) as firearms which fire a projectile not in excess of 15 mm ( 0. 60 inches ) in diameter.

Likewise, nations that violate international arms control agreements, even if claiming to be acting within the scope of their national sovereignty, may find themselves with a range of penalties or sanctions regarding firearms placed on them by other nations.

In response to the coup, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 841 imposing international sanctions and an arms embargo on Haiti.

It further includes the important functions of the maintenance of international peace and security, arms control, the pacific settlement of disputes and the regulation of the use of force in international relations.

The success of German artillery spurred the first international arms race, against Schneider in France and Armstrong in England.

The impasse in the pro-Russian Transnistria enclave, plagued by corruption and the smuggling of arms and contraband, continues despite international attempts at mediation.

" As regards El Salvador, the Court considers that in customary international law the provision of arms to the opposition in another State does not constitute an armed attack on that State.

Sweden has devoted particular attention to issues of disarmament, arms control, and nuclear nonproliferation and has contributed importantly to UN and other international peacekeeping efforts, including the NATO-led peacekeeping forces in the Balkans.

Due to a lack of funding and human resources, an arms embargo that made it difficult to re-establish a national security force, and general indifference on the part of the international community, President Yusuf found himself obliged to deploy thousands of troops from Puntland to Mogadishu to sustain the battle against insurgent elements in the southern part of the country.

Due to a lack of funding and human resources, an arms embargo that made it difficult to re-establish a national security force, and general indifference on the part of the international community, President Yusuf found himself obliged to deploy thousands of troops from Puntland to Mogadishu to sustain the battle against insurgent elements in the southern part of the country.

Its mission statement is to " defend the sovereign good of The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, contribute to the development of the national community and support the State in the fulfillment of its national and international objectives ". The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force is made up of four distinct arms, The Regiment / Army, the Coast Guard, the Air Guard and the Defence Force Reserves, which all fall under the authority of the Ministry of National Security.

It also maintained and developed its links with maritime services, one of the initial arms of Australia ’ s international telecommunications network.

Many proposals were suggested to put all US nuclear weapons under international control ( by the newly formed United Nations, for example ) as an effort to deter both their usage and an arms race.

However, as a co-founder of SANE, Fromm's strongest political activism was in the international peace movement, fighting against the nuclear arms race and US involvement in the Vietnam War.

Throughout the war period Portugal faced increasing dissent, arms embargoes and other punitive sanctions imposed by most of the international community.

Some of the more important international arms control agreements follow:

The Manchukuo case persuaded the United States to articulate the so-called Stimson Doctrine, under which international recognition was withheld from changes in the international system created by force of arms.