The phrase "armaments race" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a competition between nations or groups to develop and accumulate weapons and military technology.
Example: "The Cold War was characterized by an intense armaments race between the United States and the Soviet Union."
Alternatives: "arms race" or "military buildup".
"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.
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".
Armaments races show a similar tendency to escalate, particularly so in an age of rapid technological change.
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.
This is the International Committee for the Study of European Questions (specifically the question of whether an acord with Russia is possible, to end the cold war and the armament race.
