arms race

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Is this the start of an arms race?
这是一场军备竞赛的开始吗？
Is this an arms race?
这是一场军备竞赛吗？
A new arms race is on and it could change everything from the way we parent to how we get our celebrity gossip.
一场新的军备竞赛正在进行中，它有可能改变一切——从我们如何管教孩子，到如何获取名人小道传闻。

"I firmly believe it is in Iran's interest not to develop nuclear weapons, because it would trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and be profoundly destabilizing in all sorts of ways."
Clinton said Venezuela's arms acquisitions outpace those of all other South American countries and raise questions about a possible regional arms race.
He spoke through an interpreter. "Not only is our country worried, but we have already expressed time and again our position against an arms race.

To compete, all the combatants have been stockpiling patents, in something of an arms race.
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the situation in which two or more countries try to have more and stronger weapons than each other

An arms race is a situation in which two countries or groups of countries are continually trying to get more and better weapons than each other.