...Ever since the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, the world has been
experiencing an arms race of one. A single great power, the United
States, continues to develop new weapons technology, often for the
distant future, that is staggeringly advanced and strikingly
destructive (potentially reaching, in some cases, an almost nuclear
level of local devastation). It continues to act, that is, as if it
were still in an arms race with another threatening superpower...
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