"Armaments Race" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1954, and later anthologized in Tales from the White Hart.

Like the rest of the collection, it is a frame story set in the pub "White Hart", where the fictional Harry Purvis narrates the secondary tale.

This comic story discusses the career of Hollywood special effects man Solly Blumberg after he is hired to create mock weapons as set pieces for a science-fiction serial named "Captain Zoom".

The story is told from his prison cell, where he is questioned again and again by military experts, demanding to know what he had built.

[2] Robert Looby noted that a Polish translation of "Armaments Race" included content that had mild criticism of communism, which he stated was an example of the censors turning a "blind eye".