Sentences with phrase «deterring nuclear attack»

Nuclear weapons and strategic policy attract increasing public concern, but systems for command, control, communications and intelligence may be just as important in deterring nuclear attack and preventing escalation

The US has long relied on the doctrine of «mutually assured destruction» — that is, having a spread - out, autonomous, and effective nuclear arsenal that would return fire should another nuclear power attack — with the intent of deterring any nuclear attacks.

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For Israel, possessing nuclear weapons is not aimed simply at deterring an attack, but rather at avoiding its destruction.

The policy currently states that the purpose of the UK's nuclear capacity is to deter attack and would only be used in extreme circumstances to defend Britain or its allies.

Even the logic of deterrence — which the film suggests will be humanity's ruin, since it's the Soviet doomsday machine that will automatically trigger nuclear holocaust if Major Kong accomplishes his mission, and was built in order to deter any such attack — is still with us.