... conventional weapons proliferation than our closest contender. A prime example of vertical conventional weapons proliferation would be the arms race between Germany and Great Britain that was a precursor to World War I; the two countries were competing with one another to see who could build the greatest warships. In an attempt to gain military superiority, Adolf Hitler ordered the development of surface ... first nuclear explosion in 1974, it symbolically ended the monopoly on nuclear systems held by the great powers. India actually obtained nuclear material for its bomb by diverting i...

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