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Explain the socio-economic impacts of arms race and identify the obstacles In the way of disarmament.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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An arms race is a reciprocal, competitive build-up in which each side arms in response to the other. Lewis Fry Richardson modelled it as action and reaction: it runs away when fear of the rival's stock outweighs the fatigue of one's own burden. Its political engine is John H. Herz's security dilemma. World military spending…

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