Publication

This Issue Brief aims to increase participating states’ awareness of the future costs they will incur in disposing of the weapons and ammunition that they acquire today. It was compiled by the Small Arms Survey in support of the RASR Initiative, and profiles the options for reducing demilitarization costs in the future—including offsetting disposal costs in the purchase price and ‘design for demil’ technologies—and the impact this is likely to have on states’ retention of surpluses in the future.