The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.
Not only would doing so assure that Europe remained vulnerable to nuclear blackmail, or worse, from Iran.
If serial nuclear blackmail were to succeed in North Korea, other countries can be expected to take note.
To avoid nuclear blackmail by so-called rogue states, McCain called for making a ballistic missile defense system a national priority.
Not since the abortive Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has Fidel had the means for engaging in nuclear blackmail against this country.
And it should stop the appeasement that encourages Beijing to expand its nuclear blackmail fleet of ICBMs that can strike the United States.
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The Americans are probably less inclined than are the nearer neighbours to give in to nuclear blackmail in return for a quiet life.
What is more, it may serve Russia's perceived interests to have the United States subjected to nuclear blackmail by its client, Fidel's Cuba .
Similarly, North Korea will get a substantially freer ride for its nuclear blackmail than would otherwise be the case as the March 31 inspection deadline comes and goes with de facto new deadline extensions.
Unease on this score can only be intensified by the behavior of the preferred candidates for such enlightened control, namely the fearmongering and hints of "nuclear blackmail" by Mikhail Gorbachev and his cadre of supporters.
Dedicated as the mullahs clearly were to furthering the transformation of Europe into a continent where Muslim law and practice would more and more prevail, they were bound to use nuclear intimidation and blackmail in pursuit of this goal of Islamization as well.
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America insists it will not give in to North Korea's blackmail and demands the unconditional, verifiable scrapping of its nuclear programme before making any concessions.
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