Misleading intelligence strategies can escalate arms races.

Evidence

The plan worked all too well: the Russians were deceived, the biological arms race intensified; germy stews were cooked up in unsafe laboratories around the world. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1240

Categorization

• QUESTION: This raises questions about the ethical implications of disinformation strategies in international relations.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1240
• XREF: connects to: Covert actions often escalate through repeated strategies and deceitful tactics. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 58; Deception in warfare escalates against counter-deception at heavy cost — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 454; Cooperation may not suffice to arrest instability in the arms race. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 581 (+1 more)