armament race

The design was seen as groundbreaking in the armaments race.

It would be a priceless victory in the armaments race.

He had become involved in an armaments race.

Computer speed now stands at the center of the armament race, as megaton power once held the center twenty years ago.

"We both initiated the nuclear armaments race.

Much worse, you fear an armaments race, a building of horrible weapon after horrible weapon, such as mankind has never known and cannot survive.

Many nations are still opposed to each other; and as confidence lessens an armaments race begins, leaving the hearts of all overcome by fear and trepidation.

As Gorbachev adviser Aleksandr Yakovlev admitted, "We understood that it was a new stage, a new turn in the armaments race."

Calling it "most urgent" to start to move in the armaments race, Mr. Belonogov said: "The more arms at our disposal, the less secure we are.

The conference passed a resolution declaring that the predictions of the socialist movement made at its international congresses had come true-that the armaments race would lead to a world-wide catastrophe.

They had argued that such events as economic depressions, the results of armament races, the stability of social groups, political elections, and so on could be analysed by the correct mathematical techniques.

A Naval armament race is an arms race during which two or more countries continuously construct ships consistently more powerful than the ships the other country built in the previous years.

The modern equivalent of the long war is the burden of the armaments race and the un-English bureaucracy, a legacy of two world wars, that still stifles the country despite a decade of Mrs Thatcher's administration.

At a United Nations conference in Paris in November, the Russians, trailing badly despite some bomb secrets obtained through the Rosenbergs (who had been sentenced to death in April), condemned the "mad armaments race."

This is a particularly pleasing parallel with human armament races, since the brain is the on-board computer used by both carnivores and herbivores, and electronics is probably the most rapidly advancing element in human weapons technology today.

On 22 May 1935, the day after Hitler had made a speech claiming that German rearmament offered no threat to peace, Attlee asserted that Hitler's speech gave "a chance to call a halt in the armaments race".

In 1945 - on Sept. 11, as fate would have it, just a month after Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Stimson wrote to Harry Truman that he feared the world was headed toward "a secret armament race of a rather desperate character."

Both governments embarked on a naval armaments race, with Greece purchasing the obsolete battleships Limnos and Kilkis and the light cruiser Elli as well as ordering two dreadnoughts, the Vasilefs Konstantinos and the Salamis and a number of destroyers.

Graham preached: "I don't believe that any man can solve his problems of life without Jesus Christ" "All across Europe, people know that time is running out," (...) "Now that Russia has the atomic bomb, the world is in an armament race driving us to destruction."

There still would remain the possibility of an armament race with regard to a possible future war, and there always exists the tempta- tion to resort once more, by "underground" methods, to the military secret, that is, keeping secret the knowledge about methods and means of and actual preparations for warfare.