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
dangerous political course, aimed at stepping up the arms race and at changes in favour of the USA in the comparative … trade sanctions and further acceleration of the arms race, I destruction of contractual relations end …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
i n g international- d e t e n t e , curbing arms race and a c h i e v i n g g e n u i n e d i s a r …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
British or any other people if we continue the arms race, to enter into discussions with the Polish Government … British or any other people if we continue the arms race, to enter into discussions with the Polish Government …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
concerned by current intern iozial tension» the arms race and conflicts in various H parts of uhe 'orld … People in many countries ,'anted an end to the arms race. Close cooperation was necessary for disarmament … massive unemployment. The arms race meanwhile (and in particular the nuclear arms race) was the moat dangerous … Security 6. Ceausescu called for cessation of the arms race, a freeze on military expenditure at current …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
certain states w e r e seeking to accelerate the arms race certainly did not improve the s i t u a t i o … l d . The GDR's main aim w a s to stop the arms race, to reach a realistic agreement on arms j reduction … 1980s had been marked by confrontation and the arms race which represented a great threat to international … superiority. This had led to an intensification of the arms race and proposals to site new medium range nuclear … Congress would depend both on trends in the arms race and on events in the third w o r l d . With hindsight …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
empty ship hulls rest. the world economy, the arms race, and put an end to "World War II," a war that …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS WAS P R A I S E D ) J ARMS RACE(USA I AT FAULT FOR GROWING TENS IONS)5 T H R …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to the Group for the Establishment of Trust between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., an unofficial peace movement in the Soviet Union. Aspects of this …
JUNE WHEN A FURTHER APPEAL ABOUT STOPPING THE ARMS RACE BECAME AVAILABLE TO THE WESTERN PRESS. 2. …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
was no alternative to the demand to stop the arms race, prevent a nuclear war and continue the process … action programme", a "resolution for ending the arms race, for detente and cooperation", statements on "neo-nazism …
