As of 2013, the United States spends about $554.2 billion annually to fund its military forces, and appropriates approximately $88.5 billion to fund Overseas Contingency Operations. Put together, the United States constitutes roughly 39 percent of the world's military expenditures.
the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of a particular element. In a neutral atom, the atomic number equals the number of electrons. See also atom, electron, proton.
The mass number is the count of these particles and so the mass number is very close to the atomic mass. Atomic number. Atomic number refers to the number of protons in nucleus. It is often denoted using the symbol Z. The number of electrons in the neutral atom is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus and therefore equal to the atomic number of the atom.