Sentences with phrase «by nuclear deterrence»

It seems increasingly evident that the security promised by nuclear deterrence is illusory.

And he understood, better than many churchmen but in harmony with the thinking of John Paul II, that the key to resolving the dangers posed by the nuclear deterrence system, in which the United States and the Soviet Union both had the capacity to «bounce the rubble,» was the collapse of the communist project and dramatic change in the governance of what was then the USSR.

Not exact matches

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

By refusing to admit the metaphor of governor into his discussion, Meeks relieves himself of the obligation even to consider seriously this line of argument and the attendant possibility that some form of nuclear deterrence might be acknowledged as a morally acceptable lesser evil.

Pakistan, which has been at odds with India since the two countries were created, especially concerning border disputes in the Kashmir region, was understandably frightened by its neighbor acquiring nuclear weapons and wanted its own for deterrence against potential Indian aggression.

[125] The Economist, the New Statesman, and many left - wing newspapers supported the reliance on nuclear deterrence and nuclear weapons, but in their view considered that of the United States would suffice, and that of the costs of the «nuclear umbrella» was best left to be borne by the United States alone.

The sabre - rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence — making nuclear war by accident a real possibility

Payne's book in a nutshell: 1) politicians and most senior officials operate with the belief that there is a dependable «rational» basis for successful deterrence in which «rational» US opponents will respond prudently and cautiously to US nuclear deterrence threats; 2) the re-evaluation of nuclear strategy in expert circles since the Cold War exposes the deep flaws of Cold War thinking in general and the concept of «rational» deterrence in particular (partly because strategy was dangerously influenced by ideas about rationality from economics).

The NPR is essentially based upon the strategy of deterrence (which Judge Oda considered «legitimized by international law» in his Dissenting Opinion to the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 45)-RRB-, presuming nuclear weapons to be used efficiently so long as they are not actuallNuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 45)-RRB-, presuming nuclear weapons to be used efficiently so long as they are not actuallnuclear weapons to be used efficiently so long as they are not actually used.

Still, the NPR seems to go further than that by extending the aims of retaining nuclear capability to the «achievement of the US objectives if deterrence fails» (p 20) and peculiarly to «hedging against prospective and unanticipated risks» (p 24).