Well, I believe there's a better way of eliminating the threat of nuclear war.

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Indeed, it was waged everywhere precisely because the threat of nuclear war was so terrible: Covert warfare became a prudent alternative.

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And the weaker party, if nuclear capable, invariably holds out the threat of nuclear war as a way to deter conventional attack.

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Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it is reasonable for us to begin this effort....Isn't it worth every investment necessary to free the world from the threat of nuclear war?

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When bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, when an Iron Curtain fell over Europe, when the threat of nuclear war loomed just 90 miles from this city, when a brilliant September morning was darkened by terror -- in none of those instances did we falter.

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With the end of the Cold War, the threat of a massive bipolar nuclear exchange has, thankfully, abated.

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Go back to the 1960s, and the biggest threat in the minds of many governments was nuclear war.

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But, by focusing on the balance of power created by the threat of nuclear holocaust, McConnell leaves out how the Cold War was won.

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The threat of massive retaliation in the nuclear context only deterred all-out nuclear war, but not the many other conflicts that plagued the latter half of the 20th Century that did not rise to the level of provoking a nuclear response.

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During the Cold War, when the United States faced the threat of a nuclear attack, U.S. administrations made clear that any strike would prompt an all-out retaliation.

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