ARMS CONTROL, COLD WAR
	
	Among U.S. arms transactions to third world countries, rarely are there only munitions involved, but also the technology to produce weapons along with the weapons themselves. As a result many third world countries are producing and exporting their own weapons adding to the global overabundance in equipment for war. 
	For example, Turkey , with help from U.S. firms , in 1987 became the first third-world country to produce an advanced U.S. fighter called the F-16 FALCON in it’s own factories and export it to other third world countries (Egypt for one). 
	 The way in which the third world countries acquire the technology to build such advanced weapons is that when they purchase arms from the U.S. in the agreement the firm from which these  countries buy the weapons must give them the advanced manufacturing technology. So for pride of the country and to reduce their dependence on external arms, these countries produce these weapons on their own.
	The effect on the world is that there is an extreme abundance of  weapons capable of mass destruction. In one little dispute  these weapons might  be used ,  and that cannot be controlled because now these third world countries have the technology to build these weapons totally independent of the U.S. . 
	Nothing is being done right now to solve this problem of overabundance of war implements.