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This is what happens when two nations attempt to prove that My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours or build a Bigger Stick. If a military conflict goes on long enough in a high-tech setting, each side will be struggling to gain and keep a technological advantage over the other. Sometimes, this process of escalation goes way over the top (especially with Soviet Superscience). See also: Plot Leveling, So Last Season, Sorting Algorithm of Evil, Serial Escalation. Not to be confused with Escalating War. Examples of Lensman Arms Race include:

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  • This is what happens when two nations attempt to prove that My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours or build a Bigger Stick. If a military conflict goes on long enough in a high-tech setting, each side will be struggling to gain and keep a technological advantage over the other. Sometimes, this process of escalation goes way over the top (especially with Soviet Superscience). See also: Plot Leveling, So Last Season, Sorting Algorithm of Evil, Serial Escalation. Not to be confused with Escalating War. Examples of Lensman Arms Race include:
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  • This is what happens when two nations attempt to prove that My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours or build a Bigger Stick. If a military conflict goes on long enough in a high-tech setting, each side will be struggling to gain and keep a technological advantage over the other. Sometimes, this process of escalation goes way over the top (especially with Soviet Superscience). The trope title and best example of this trope comes from E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman novels (making this Older Than Television). Over the course of a decades-long struggle (that was only the surface of a deeper, eons-old war between cosmic beings using mortals as pawns), Civilization and Boskone went from ordinary starship battles to star-powered lasers, Antimatter bombs, planets used as missiles, antimatter planets, faster-than-light missiles, faster-than-light antimatter planet missiles... Truth in Television, naturally. Moore's Law is this trope applied specifically to computer technology, stating that every eighteen months, roughly, we see a doubling of transistor density (and thus hardware capabilities). And of course we see dramatic escalation in real life arms races. See also: Plot Leveling, So Last Season, Sorting Algorithm of Evil, Serial Escalation. Not to be confused with Escalating War. Examples of Lensman Arms Race include:
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