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Definition of Arms race
1. Noun. A competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments.
Definition of Arms race
1. Noun. A competition for military supremacy between two powers, especially for the most weapons and the best military technology. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arms Race
Literary usage of Arms race
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"National Academy Press, Washington, DC The Nuclear arms race and the Psychology
of Power JEROME D. FRANK, MD, PH.D. The Johns Hopkins University School of ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Steady Decrease in National Security The nuclear arms race has led to a situation
... It is the inevitable consequence of the arms race and the systematic ..."
3. The New Detente: Rethinking East-West Relations by Mary Kaldor, Gerard Holden, Richard A. Falk (1989)
"The structural detente between the superpowers became overshadowed by the
alternation of sunshine and cloud in the arms-race and arms-control processes. ..."
4. Arms Reduction: Economic Implications in the Post-Cold War Era by Lawrence Robert Klein, Fu-chen Lo, Warwick J. McKibbin (1995)
"Discriminatory arms control that seeks to restrict arms flows only to some selected
regional states is not good policy because it leads to an arms race, ..."
5. Defense Policy in the Reagan Administration edited by William P. Snyder, James Brown (1997)
"offensive arms race may have been eliminated, but the race has nonetheless ...
It is now clear that the notion that the arms race was primarily a function ..."
6. The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their by Jan Lodal (2001)
"Controlling the arms race by Limiting ABMs The 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty
and the Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms were bilateral ..."
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