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.
Nucleons are either protons or neutrons and the total number of nucleons is given the symbol A (also known as the mass number). The total number of protons within the nucleus is called the atomic number and given the symbol Z.Protons and neutrons have a mass of 1, protons are positively charged and neutrons have no charge. 1  A (mass number): total number of nucleons = protons + neutrons.2  Z (atomic number): number of protons. great many different configurations of the nucleus may occur. In each case, the atomic number defines the element, i.e. it is the number of protons that determines that carbon (having 6 protons) is carbon.