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arms race

competition between two or more parties to have more superior armed forces
Class type of: competition, racing, race Q322348

Facts

6 properties
Subclass of
competition, racing, race[1][2][3]
Described by source
Lean Logic[5]
Different from
evolutionary arms race[6]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[7]
Opposite of
disarmament[4]
P14541
1Vg8wQ[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en arms race ar سباق تسلح cs závody ve zbrojení cs závod ve zbrojení de Wettrüsten de Rüstungsspirale de Rüstungswettlauf de Wettrüstung el ανταγωνισμός εξοπλισμών es carrera armamenticia es carrera armamentista fa مسابقه تسلیحاتی fa مسابقهٔ تسلیحاتی fi asevarustelu fi kilpavarustelu fr course à l'armement fr course à l’armement fr course aux armements fr courses d'armements he מירוץ החימוש
🔖 Identifiers · 36
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85007355
GND ID
4076878-8
OpenAlex ID
C2989419327
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/15702
BNCF Thesaurus ID
79670
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13319290t
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
211115
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/arms-race
FAST ID
814930
Freebase ID
/m/01f4rt
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
cursa-darmaments
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0160493
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Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
våpenkappløp
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
gonka-vooruzhenii-01fd09
Harper's tag
arms-race
IdRef ID
028196988
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
arms-races
KBpedia ID
ArmRace
Museum-digital tag ID
71657
NL CR AUT ID
ph990900
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007294806605171
Quora topic ID
Arms-Race-1
SVKKL authority ID
0454792-zavody-ve-zbrojeni
ScienceDirect topic ID
earth-and-planetary-sciences/arms-race, social-sciences/arms-race
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID
tgm000494
Topic's main category
Category:Arms race
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
riarmo
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10637140
UNBIS Thesaurus ID
1000393
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept2894
UNSPSC code
92111904
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
ginklavimosi-varzybos
WikiKids ID
Wapenwedloop
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07487948-n
YSO ID
4056
Yale LUX ID
concept/6d347227-8559-4525-a974-c45b0cd1543c

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🔗 Connections
Examples 4
Anglo–German naval arms race, artificial intelligence arms race, South American dreadnought race, Argentine–Chilean naval arms race
Subclass of 2
competition, racing
← Main subject 2
The Blob, 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord
Described by source 1
Lean Logic
Different from 1
evolutionary arms race
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Opposite of 1
disarmament
Subtypes 1
nuclear arms race
← Different from 1
evolutionary arms race
← Has use 1
Security Action for Europe
← Opposite of 1
disarmament
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competition Lean Logic

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  1. 11w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID → topic/arms-race
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/arms-race"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → arms-race
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: arms-race, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289909727|arms race (#289909727)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  3. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1Vg8wQ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 19w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID → ginklavimosi-varzybos
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID: ginklavimosi-varzybos"
  5. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0454792-zavody-ve-zbrojeni
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0454792-zavody-ve-zbrojeni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
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