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It is a bad thing because it leads an already staggering expentiture level (over $ 1.7 trillion worldwide in 2012 alone, $ 711 billion by the US) to rise even more steeply.
Apart from the financial waste, an arms race - or a case where one country starts outspending its neighbours or tries to outgun them by developing atomic bombs - can easily fuel political tensions as presently shown in the case of China, Iran and Korea.
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What ended the arms race?
The Arms Race ended with the end of the cold war and the breakup of the USSR. The nuclear arms race came about during the Cold War.
What did the soviets want from Nixon when he took office in 1969?
an agreement to slow the arms race.
What was a result of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?
The treaty slowed the arms race between the USSR and the US.
Did president reagans foreign policys end the cold war in 1991?
Nooo,the downfall of The Soviet Union or USSR did. They spent too much money on trying to keep up with the Americans in the Arms race and Space race.
What was the reason for superpowers to engage in an arms race with a strategy of mutually assured destruction?
Both countries felt that they were safe from attack if they were powerful enough to destroy the other.
Why was the European arm race a bad thing?
In an arms race, the activity of the other side begins determining one's behavior. And the results at the end of the race are from assertion and not analysis. The likelihood of war increases as an arms race picks up pace.
What does the arms race have to do with politics?
What! There is a race of arms!
What was the naval arms race about?
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Are mutations bad or goods?
They can be both good and bad depending on the mutation. Having extra arms may be a good thing if you are an alien, but being someone with extra arms can also be a bad thing. If you are not an alien, having extra arms might not be so grand. Do normal people have extra arms? If you are a person that got offended by this, i am so truly sorry. Bye:)
Is there even an antonym for arms race?
no not even words similar to it unless you use the urban dictonary but dont it's bad
How did the arms race lead to peace?
how did the arms race lead to the end of the fall of the soviet union
Was the dropping of Atomic bombs in World War 2 a good thing or bad thing?
It was good one way because it save many lives, American casualties where figured to be somewhere near 1 million and Japanese casualties much high due to their refusal to surrender. It was a bad thing because it ushered in an arms race between the west and the east, each seeking to out do the other.
Why do you think the arms race was justified as a good thing for the cold war?
The arms race is a rapid increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military power by rival states in peacetime. It wasn't necessarily a good thing for the cold war but the Soviet Union detonating the first atomic bomb was the start of the Cold War.Ê
What ended the arms race?
The Arms Race ended with the end of the cold war and the breakup of the USSR. The nuclear arms race came about during the Cold War.
Why did the arms race start?
the arms race started because US wanted to get the most powerful bomb.
What was the Australian involvement in Pearl Harbor?
It got Them involved in arms race It got Them involved in arms race
What do you think is meant arms race?
'Arms race' was the 'race' between America and Soviet Russia to develop as many nuclear weapons as possible.
