The phrase "armament race" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a competition between nations or groups to accumulate or develop military weapons and technology.
Example: "The Cold War was characterized by an intense armament race between the United States and the Soviet Union."
Alternatives: "arms race" or "military buildup".
These by-products of the armament race have neither increased nor diminished the probability of nuclear war.
In Washington, the general opinion was that a world conference is inopportune, and that the first step toward success would be an agreement to end the armament race.
By that time Germany had discontinued its four-per-year naval vessel production rate and had abandoned the naval armament race with Britain.
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".
22] in a stirring Franco-American demonstration for limitation of armaments and economic co-operation at the annual dinner of the American Club at the Hotel George V, when Premier Leon Blum and Ambassador William C. Bullitt joined in condemning the present armament race between nations and the barriers paralyzing international trade.
The unveiling "set ablaze the big naval armament race with Germany, who was determined to keep up with us", says Roberts. "Once we'd launched Dreadnought, she had to have Dreadnoughts, and better Dreadnoughts, and as she built her Dreadnoughts we progressively had to build more, bigger, and more powerful Dreadnoughts".
"We both initiated the nuclear armaments race.
Still, unlike his friend Walther Rathenau, the unorthodox German-Jewish industrialist, Kessler stopped short of denouncing the armaments race, and sometimes sounded cavalier about the prospect of war.
He also urged Italy's entry into the armaments race despite the country's limited resources, and he encouraged colonial adventures in Africa.
A number of other Congressmen greeted the idea with enthusiasm in the hope that a means might be found of forestalling the big new naval building program of the United States, as well as a general armaments race.
Ludendorff, however, violated this tradition by campaigning for a strengthening of the army, both in personnel and equipment, which the general staff considered essential in view of the general armaments race in Europe.
