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 atomic number is the count of how many protons an atom has in its nucleus (and therefor also the count of how many electrons the neutral atom possesses). The atomic number â¦ is unique for each element and positions the element in the periodic table.