Wiktionary
n. The arsenal of nuclear weapons of a nation viewed as a deterrent to an enemy from attacking.
Usage examples of "nuclear deterrent".
Amatzia Baram points out that in 1971, when Iraq began its nuclear program, it was too poor and too weak to feel a great enough threat from Israel to require a nuclear deterrent--Saddam's ostensible explanation for the program.
Amatzia Baram points out that in 1971, when Iraq began its nuclear program, it was too poor and too weak to feel a great enough threat from Israel to require a nuclear deterrent—.
At the very worst, maybe we can diffuse some of the paranoia surrounding Asia's upcoming joint nuclear deterrent exercises.
That's half our nuclear deterrent gone, and that was the safe half of it.
Perhaps you don't understand we have lost a good percentage of our strategic nuclear deterrent power.
Ah tolt him he wiz a dupe of the imperialist propaganda machine an the so-called independent nuclear deterrent wiz a farce.
American entry into the Barents Sea will constitute a direct threat to our nuclear deterrent forces, and could have more dire consequences than you imagine.
There are still grave problems confronting humanity in many parts of the world, and some of them pose as great a threat to civilization as the late, unlamented nuclear deterrent.
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Multilateral talks on the more difficult stages of disarmament, down to a minimum nuclear deterrent, were making progress.