Arms Race
An arms race occurs when two or more nations compete in increases in military personnel and materiel. Simply defined as a competition between two or more states to have superior armed forces; a competition concerning production of weapons, the growth of a military, and the aim of superior military technology. The term is also used to describe any long-term escalating competitive situation where each competitor focuses on out-doing the others. The existing scholarly literature is divided as to whether arms races are correlated with war. International relations scholars explain arms races with the security dilemma, rationalist spiral models, states with …
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
Talks (START) seemed able to halt or reverse the arms race. Delegates were reminded that of the world's … implementation in the CBM area and reference to the 'arms race' is objectionable. The reference to terrorism …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
position. Another problem was the new round of the arms race started by the Reagan administration with new …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
R OPPOSITION TO DELETION OF REFERENCES TO ARMS RACE/ARMS BUILD UP ELSEWHERE IN RM 39. THE S O V … ( A C l M O V l C ) MAINTAINED THAT QUOTES ARMS RACE UNQUOTES HAD BEEN USED BY SOME FOREIGN £ MINISTERS … THE OLD ARGUMENT THAT THE NEED TO STOP THE ARMS RACE WAS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF DETENTE I . … SOLUTION Of! THE PLACE FOR REFERENCES TO QUOTES ARMS RACE UNQUOTES. I RESPONDED BRIEFLY THAT WE HAD T … A30UT THE UNACCEPTABIL ITY OF THE TERM QUOTES ARMS RACE UNQUOTES. I 5. THE HOLY SEE THEN PROPOSED …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
deteriorating international situation and an increasing arms race and felt that they should try to do something … political and economic antagonism and by an unabated arms race with dangerous c o n s e q u e n c e s for security … RELATIONS CAUSED, INTER ALIA, BY AN UNABATED ARMS RACE. I CONFIDENTIAL I • 4 CONFIDENTIAL 3. SKALA …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Russian
A file containing documents concerning British visitors to the Soviet Union. The principal subject covered in the file is a programme of unofficial Anglo-Soviet politico-military talks held in Moscow in …
made one intervention about the burden of the arms race on the working class, but this point had been … This was an obstacle to peaceful progress. The arms race had a more severe effect on economy of the Soviet … lose yet another chance to end the dangerous arms race. The Soviet Union is prepared to conduct an honest … to reduce conventional arms. The conventional arms race, he said, involves not only the developed but …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to Soviet influence in Western Europe. Subjects covered in the file include the state of relations between the Soviet and Italian communist parties; a visit …
concept of "first strike" and against the nuclear arms race in Europe and elsewhere; the creation of nuclear-free … They stressed the need to stop and reverse the arms race and to ensure security on a lower level of armaments …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French
A file containing documents relating to Soviet foreign policy. Subjects covered in the file include the role of the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, in foreign-policy formulation; the view that the …
headed by the USA, continue to whip up the arms race, fuelling dangerous crises in various parts of … of warfare from becoming more ominous and the arms race from spreading to ever new spheres. It was the … 1976). Lack of positive results in curbing the arms race in the late 70s and early 80s has been due to … reduction of tensions and for an end to the arms race folly. In view of the challenges which Washington … place. II. By launching a new round of the arms race, unprecedented in scale, and by increasing military …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the Bulgarian communist party. The documents cover events at the ninth congress of the Fatherland Front; a speech delivered by the Bulgarian leader, …
superiority over the Soviet Union and whips up the arms race. This adventurist policy only increases the danger … international relations, for curbing and halting the arms race and for disarmament. 8. The Ninth Congress of … measures to prevent nuclear war, to curb the arms race and for disarmament, will be implemented in the … danger of nuclear catastrophe, curtailing the arms race and realizing the ideal of humanity, a world free …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French
A file containing documents relating to the death and funeral of the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Subjects covered in the file include the representation of the British government by the …
CONCLUSION. GROMYKO ARGUED THAT THE SOLUTION TO THE ARMS RACE LAY I N N E G O T I A T I O N S W H I C H , …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to the internal political situation in Romania. Subjects covered in the file include the country's increasing economic and social problems; a new law on discipline …
R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y TO CONTAIN THE Arms race and pas to disarmament under strict international …
