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To tell you the truth I really don't know but I'm guessing it's a race with firearms...like when in a race you want to be better/faster then the other racers...in an arms race the countries would be raceing to invent the most acurate, deadly, etc...fire arm. I hope I'm right!

I wrote that before i found this...it's a more acurate description of an arms race...I was pretty close...

The term arms race in its original usage describes a competition between two or more parties for military supremacy. Each party competes to produce larger numbers of weapons, greater armies, or superior military technology in a technological escalation. For example, one such competition manifested itself in the rapid development by the United States and the Soviet Union of more and better nuclear weapons during the Cold War (see: nuclear arms race). Carl Sagan once famously described the overkill in this arms race with the analogy of "two men standing waist deep in gasoline; one with three matches, the other with five." The Soviet Union devoted their command economy to the arms race and with the deployment of the SS-18 in the late 1970s achieved first strike superiority. However, the strain of competition against the great spending power of the United States created enormous economic problems during Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt at konversiya, the transition to a consumer based, mixed economy, and hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.

More generically, the term "arms race" is also used to describe any competition where there is no absolute goal, only the relative goal of staying ahead of the other competitors. Evolutionary arms races are common occurrences, e.g. predators evolving more effective means to catch prey while their prey evolves more effective means of evasion. This is sometimes called the Red Queen effect. In addition to predators, parasites can force their hosts into an arms race.

In technology, there are close analogues to the arms races between parasites and hosts, such as the arms race between computer virus writers and anti-virus software writers, or spammers against Internet Service Providers and E-mail software writers.

Lewis Fry Richardson made an arms race model, trying to retrodict World War I, where he showed how two countries would go to war if more money was spent in the arms race than in trade.

Hope this helps you!!

Laryn

2007-01-08 09:06:46 · answer #1 · answered by Laryn 2 · 2 0

An arms race is just one person trying to get more ammunition than the other person. People in relationships play game. You can make a scene because you are upset. You can also make a scene about something that doesn't bother you because it makes the other person feel bad or you can throw it in thier face later. Some people think that a relationship is a compitition and who ever makes the other person feel the worst wins. Aren't people great?

2007-01-08 09:13:37 · answer #2 · answered by greg_s_va 1 · 0 0

it doesn't matter. all that matters is that it's a good song and Fall Out Boy is a great band :)

2007-01-08 09:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by phunkyest<3 2 · 0 0

a race with guns, such as a war

2007-01-08 09:05:07 · answer #4 · answered by vampire heart 3 · 0 0

i have no idea......
but the video is awesome!! ; )

2007-01-08 09:07:22 · answer #5 · answered by takingbacksundaytbs2 3 · 0 0

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