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Today, weapons are for sale openly in the central market of Kabul, Afghanistan. The huge numbers of small arms readily available in Africa, Asia, and Central America are a lega- cy of the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union supplied weapons to govern- ments or rebel groups willing to fight for their strategic interests.

(1939-1945). Enormous arms companies, such as Boeing and Lockheed in the US, were established and grew to supply these new, sophisticated weapons in ever-increasing numbers. The Cold War From the end of World War II until the early 1990s, many countries of the world aligned themselves with one of the two superpowers, the United States or the Soviet Union . The

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The Arms Trade