Arms Sales: USA vs Russia

U.S. and USSR/Russian arms sales from 1950 through 2017. The underlying data comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Arms Transfers Database. Units are expressed in trend indicator values (TIV). Each dot on the map = one TIV. Visualization by Will Geary (@wgeary).

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+2 1. mwak commented 6 years ago

It's nicely done but misses the total volumes to get a better idea.
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+1 2. thundersnow commented 6 years ago

And a bonus is the accompanying music fitting to that time period, I liked that. :)
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+2 3. Judge-Jake commented 6 years ago

I liked it most when it stopped but the music continued :)
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+1 4. thundersnow commented 6 years ago

#3 Silly! ;)
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+2 5. camoga commented 6 years ago

Great Vid, interesting to see the present state of the countries that each power was selling arms to.
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+1 6. RobertTusk commented 6 years ago

The main purpose of NATO is to compel member countries to hand over 2% of their GDP to US arms manufacturers.