- During World War I, civilians accounted for fewer than 5 percent of all casualties. Today, over 75 percent of those killed or injured in conflict are non-combatants. [8]
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- 60-90,000 people are killed every year in wars and armed conflicts. [9]
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- Of the world’s 34 poorest countries, 22 are emerging from or are in a state of armed conflict. [10]
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- According to the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organization, armed conflicts are the largest cause of hunger worldwide, Conflict is responsible for thirty-five percent of the food emergencies that occurred between 1992 and 2003. [11]
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- Approximately 14,000 terrorist attacks occurred worldwide in 2006, causing 20,000 deaths. [12]
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- Between 2000 and 2005, more than 30 suicide bombings were carried out by children, and many juvenile terrorists have been detained at Guantanamo Bay in the special “Camp Iguana” facility. [13]
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- The first U.S. soldier killed from hostile fire in Afghanistan was shot by a 14-year-old sniper. [14]
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- Roughly thirty-five percent of the energy released in a nuclear explosion is heat. The temperature upon detonation may exceed 100 million degrees Centigrade (°C), ten times the temperature of the surface of the sun. At these temperatures, matter cannot exist in its normal state and it is converted into ionized plasma. [16]
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- The U.S.’s military budget is almost as large as the rest of the world’s military budgets combined. [17]
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- The Department of Energy estimates that only 4 kilograms of plutonium are needed to make a bomb. [18]
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