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What is "nuclear deterrence"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nuclear deterrence
noun
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▪ And it would mean the failure of 37 years of nuclear deterrence.
▪ But it also reserves the right to do so by insisting on full membership for them, which includes nuclear deterrence.
▪ How does that set an example to countries that he wishes to discourage from adopting nuclear deterrence?
▪ There is no sign that nuclear deterrence can prevent all conflicts.
▪ They are putting almost all their eggs in the basket of deterrence, particularly nuclear deterrence.
▪ Yet the theory of nuclear deterrence assumes the reverse.
WordNet
nuclear deterrence

n. the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence; "when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction"

Usage examples of "nuclear deterrence".

Saddam is a fundamentally aggressive and risk-taking decision maker, and the available evidence indicates that he subscribes to this dangerous interpretation of the role of nuclear deterrence in enabling conventional offensives.

Saddam Hussein and his regime are the polar opposite of every single one of the traits considered desirable, if not essential, for nuclear deterrence.

The consequences could be catastrophic, both in terms of lives lost and the complete loss of our strategic nuclear deterrence.

The world Royce Caplinger had spoken of last night-nuclear deterrence, global tragedy-that was an alien environment, as foreign to him as the concerns of headhunters in the jungles of the Amazon.

We spend another twenty billion dollars maintaining a nuclear deterrence force, and we hope to God we never have to use it, despite the threat from China and possibly Russia.

In the most approximate sense, and we emphasize approximate, the analogy with nuclear deterrence might be drawn.