Well, I believe there's a better way of eliminating the threat of nuclear war.
Indeed, it was waged everywhere precisely because the threat of nuclear war was so terrible: Covert warfare became a prudent alternative.
And the weaker party, if nuclear capable, invariably holds out the threat of nuclear war as a way to deter conventional attack.
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?
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.
"Statesmen" will argue: If Israel agrees that a no-nukes environment is okay when there is a comprehensive peace, why not bring it about when there is a real - and, given Iran's incipient nuclear capability, growing - threat of regional war?
Worse yet, the concessions Mr. Gallucci lavished on North Korea -- not the least of which was the highest level of diplomatic interaction since the end of the Korean War, security assurances "against the threat and use of force, including nuclear weapons" and promises of noninterference in Pyongyang's "internal affairs" -- have served to reinforce the Kims' nuclear ambitions.
But, by focusing on the balance of power created by the threat of nuclear holocaust, McConnell leaves out how the Cold War was won.
As I wrote last week, the specter of nuclear war will remain the single greatest military threat to America for the foreseeable future.
The current threat of war against Iran for fear that it could possess nuclear weapons may risk repeating the consequences of the Iraqi invasion in 2003.
Today, against the backdrop of the Iranian nuclear threat - which also makes clear that the war against Israel is simply a front in the larger jihad - the Saudis again wish to convince the Americans not to view Israel as a strategic ally.
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.
Even by North Korean standards, the threat of a nuclear strike and the scrapping of a 1953 truce that effectively ended the Korean War have been incredibly provocative, Clapper said.
The danger now is not so much threat of a first strike but the danger that both sides will come to believe that nuclear war can be limited, won and survived.
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