According to the report, oversight of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) units in local law enforcement is virtually nonexistent, and SWAT teams are now being used for very different purposes than those for which they were first designed.
To prove the point, Xi Jinping, China's new leader, made Moscow his first port of call.On Syria, Russia has repeatedly wielded its UN security-council veto against sanctions and blocked international oversight of Syrian chemical weapons.
The agency's mission includes oversight of the nation's nuclear weapons complex, running facilities for basic researchers, and setting energy efficiency standards.
There were countless fires, leaks and accidents at Rocky Flats; after decades of weapons production, and little environmental oversight, the area was profoundly contaminated.
The lack of any consistent global oversight of the arms trade has allowed weapons to be misused on a mass scale, resulting in the widespread killing and maiming of civilians.
"The United Kingdom is not developing lethal autonomous weapons systems, and the operation of weapons systems by the UK armed forces will always be under human oversight and control.
Though Ukraine's weapons export system has been criticized for lack of oversight, most analysts say controls over weapons sales have improved since the 1990s, when the country was a main source of weapons sent to conflict zones around the world.
That's what led Warren Buffett to describe derivatives that were bought and sold with little oversight as "financial weapons of mass destruction".
