Sentences with phrase «out nuclear deterrence»

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At a more general level, the international system is returning to great power security competition, now that multipolarity is replacing the post-Cold War unipolar moment, and how that future will turn out is uncertain — but one thing that the last 67 years have shown is that nuclear deterrence is a fairly effective way of stopping major power security tension turning into all - out conventional war.

Earlier titles or spinoffs like Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker dealt with the ethics of nuclear deterrence — or more specifically, whether nuclear deterrence could work without a human element to guide it (the debate being that, a human could always make the decision not to retaliate to a nuclear strike, out of fear of completely wiping out the human race, as opposed to an A.I., that would retaliate regardless).