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EscalationEscalation is the phenomenon of something getting worse step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, military presence and nuclear armament during the Cold War. (Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level.) The term was coined by Herman Kahn in 1965, when he published a book called On Escalation. Links
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