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CONFLICTS fuelled by imported weapons were estimated in 2007 to cost Africa at least $18 billion a year, almost cancelling out the amount given in aid.

A new Trident fleet of ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons are estimated by independent analysts to take up about a third of Britain's military equipment budget over the next decade.

Revenues from illicit activities and sales of weapons are estimated to cover a large portion of North Korea's annual trade deficit, which was estimated at $1.5 billion in 2008 by the South Korean government.

The global weapons market is estimated to be worth $55bn, and the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs states that the "trade in conventional weapons – from warships and battle tanks to fighter jets and machine guns – remains poorly regulated.

A single nuclear weapon, it is estimated, can slaughter hundreds of thousands of people through its enormous blast, fire, and radioactive fallout.

If the critic is correct, the flaw may cripple or even kill the proposed weapon system, the cost of which is estimated at up to $60 billion.

The cost of cleaning up just the five miles of weapon trenches in Alabama, it noted, is estimated at several billion dollars.

The gap between the actual defence budget and weapons programmes promised by previous governments has been estimated at £38bn.

North Korea is estimated to have 30 to 34 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium now, enough for around nine nuclear weapons, depending on the size of each bomb.

North Korea tested a nuclear bomb in 2006 and is estimated to have enough material to assemble several more weapons.

In Serbia there are estimated to be up to 900,000 illicit firearms, mostly AK-type military weapons.