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Arms race, an Uncommon card
An arms race is a competition between two or more states to have superior armed forces, concerning production of weapons, the growth of a military, and the aim of superior military technology.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Arms race quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arms race card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Examples include the ______ arms race.
Answer
nuclear. Examples include the nuclear arms race. From the Arms race article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Great Commandment. Great Commandment 62,000 · Arms race 48,000 · Bryan Keith 35,000 · Cashier 23,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Unlike a sporting race, which constitutes a specific event with winning interpretable as the outcome of a singular project, arms races constitute spiralling systems of on-going and potentially open-ended behavior.
- Examples include the nuclear arms race.
- The existing scholarly literature is divided as to whether arms races correlate with war.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arms race article was read about 48,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Arms race
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arms race (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wikideas1, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
