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The 34 pages that link to Arms race, each with the reason it gives.

• Cold WarRelated: US and Soviet weapons programs expanded sharply under mutual strategic competition.

• AllianceRelated: Alliance commitments and counter-alignments can intensify military competition.

• Realism (international relations)Related: Realist accounts explain arms competition as a response to uncertainty and relative power.

• Prisoner's dilemmaRelated: Mutual escalation can resemble repeated defection despite the costs both sides bear.

• Air defenseRelated: Air-defense advances can prompt attackers to develop faster, stealthier, or more numerous weapons.

• EscalationRelated: Escalating threats can shift conflict from immediate actions into sustained military competition.

• MilitarismRelated: Mutual threat perceptions can turn militarized policy into escalating competition.

• Standing armyRelated: A state's permanent army can prompt rivals to maintain forces of their own.

• Military allianceRelated: Rival alliances can accelerate military buildups as members prepare for conflict.

• Precision-guided munitionRelated: Improvements in guided weapons can prompt countermeasures and competing military investments.

• Maxim gunRelated: The Maxim’s effectiveness encouraged governments to seek comparable rapid-fire weapons.

• Strategic Defense InitiativeRelated: Critics warned that strategic defenses could prompt opponents to expand or adapt their offensive arsenals.

• Arms industryRelated: Rival states' procurement decisions can create recurring demand for new weapons.

• Arms tradeRelated: Suppliers can accelerate rival governments’ efforts to acquire more weapons.

• Autonomous weaponRelated: Fears of strategic disadvantage can encourage states to develop autonomous weapon capabilities.

• MilitaryRelated: Rival military buildups can intensify insecurity and raise the risk of conflict.

• Military technologyRelated: New capabilities can provoke rivals to develop counters or matching systems.

• Hiram MaximRelated: The success of Maxim’s weapon encouraged governments to acquire and improve automatic firearms.

• Military aircraftRelated: Advances in military aircraft can prompt rivals to develop new aircraft and defenses.

• Military exerciseRelated: Repeated drills may intensify competitive military buildups and reciprocal preparations.

• Mutually assured destructionRelated: Efforts to secure a more survivable deterrent can spur reciprocal weapons expansion.

• WarshipRelated: Rival warship programs can intensify strategic competition and increase military spending.

• 20th centuryRelated: The superpower contest created vast arsenals and persistent risks of nuclear war.

• Anatol RapoportRelated: Rapoport used systems analysis to explain how interacting security decisions can intensify competition.

• Hard powerRelated: Efforts to strengthen coercive capacity can prompt rivals to build forces in response.

• Air force modernizationRelated: An air force’s upgrades can prompt rivals to pursue countermeasures or new capabilities.

• History of military technologyRelated: Rivalry can drive technological development while making its direction politically contingent.

• History of weaponsRelated: Weapon innovation can trigger cycles of competitive military buildup.

• MissileRelated: Missile development became a prominent measure of military competition during the Cold War.

• Strategic dominanceRelated: Dominance goals can turn military investment into a sustained rivalry.