The munitions inquiry

The Senate committee on the munitions industry (the Nye Committee) reports that American arms makers won foreign business by methods amounting to bribery, with the active support of the War, Navy, Commerce and State Departments. It found no evidence that wars were started solely by them, and judged it against the peace of the world to leave them free.

The mechanism

WAR FINANCE — the arms makers, on the Senate's record

How it was checked

• EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
• Letter eraTHE REGATHERING AND THE RAIL 1947 to 1993
• SourcesPRIMARY — Report of the Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry, S. Rept. 74-944, Part 3 (govinfo.gov)