We are no longer divided into armed camps, locked in a careful balance of terror.
They fear a theocratic regime that embraces the Shia tradition of martyrdom may not be deterred by a nuclear balance of terror.
There is a precedent of sorts: in his beer company, he has achieved a balance of terror with his partner, Heineken, with each side owning a 37.5% stake.
He said that the balance of terror between the nuclear superpowers was preferable to trusting the communists: he tended to be against negotiations designed to reduce stocks of arms.
But the genie is out of the bottle now, and North Asia may simply have to rely on some localized balance of terror in order to keep its economically-vital equilibrium.
Is she espousing deterrence in the belief that that a nuclear-armed mullahocracy can be contained via the sort of "balance of terror" that operated during much of the Cold War?
Through the device of prohibiting effective defenses against ballistic missiles, the ABM Treaty's drafters hoped to institutionalize the principle of mutual vulnerability, a "balance of terror" in which the peoples of the United States and the Soviet Union are perpetual hostages.
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For the past two years Greece and its donors have held each other in a balance of financial terror, each fearing the meltdown that would follow a Greek default and departure from the euro.
The question weighing on the minds of the ever-dwindling number of Turks who want to join the European Union is how to balance the fight against terror with the country's European aspirations.
There is the fait accompli strategy -- stay under the radar -- and the passive aggressive strategy, acts of terror used to paralyze and so on -- so the bottom line must be balance.
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