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arm·s race

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  1. arms racenoun

    a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments

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  1. Robert Ackerman:

    (Cyber security) is an arms race, and when you are in an arms race, you are looking for any kind of competitive advantage you can get.

  2. Lynn Rusten:

    The history of the arms race has been one side trying to get advantage over the other and it never works, neither we nor the allies are more secure as a result. One use would be devastating. And it is a huge amount of money on top of it.

  3. Michael Griffin:

    I'm not one to mince words — it is an arms race, and critically, we didn't start it.

  4. Brent Mittelstadt:

    It’s an arms race.

  5. Matt Bennett:

    I do think there's a bit of an arms race underway.


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