Security dilemma

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In international relations, the security dilemma (also referred to as the spiral model) is when the increase in one state's security (such as increasing its military strength) leads other states to fear for their own security (because they do not know whether or not the security-increasing state intends to use its growing military for offensive purposes).

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