US Arms Manufacturing and Exports

US Arms Manufacturing and Exports

[mercye]

This is such an interesting question. It will be cool to see what you find/what the trends are. Good job on finding this data!!

I feel like pie charts lend themselves to the question of how much of all exports are arms, or what percentage of GDP arms account for. I am excited to see what you do with this/how you decide to visualize the data.

[gcgruen]

I'm curious what you'll find. Some thoughts on directions: Couple of years ago there was kind of a scandal for finding German manufactured weapons in countries where Germany is not allowed to send weapons to. Maybe there's a similar embargo for US weapon producers? Then a timeline could show how exports to these countries have dropped upon that embargo and thereby providing context for the timeline.

Another thought: I feel we have seen a lot of comparisons to GDP, that's why I would argue for comparing it to something else (as well) -- for example spending on peace (in terms of development aid) or spendings on education!