But the High Court ruling will not distinguish atoms for peace from nuclear deterrence.
The British public, too, is less convinced of the need for nuclear deterrence than in the past.
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The demonstration of a viable long-range rocket will add another piece to North Korea's nuclear deterrence posture.
Beijing has been loud in its opposition to the plan, which it believes will weaken its nuclear deterrence.
"We will take physical actions aimed at expanding and strengthening our self-defensive military forces, including nuclear deterrence, " it said.
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But it will add that Washington "will continue to move" toward "making nuclear deterrence the sole objective" of the arsenal.
But the need for nuclear deterrence still existed, because Russia retained thousands of warheads and China had at least hundreds.
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Some have invoked the language of nuclear deterrence, others of biological weapons, others have spoken of crime, others of public health.
Though it's tempting to attribute the Long Peace to nuclear deterrence, non-nuclear developed states have stopped fighting each other as well.
Cold War, the United States has an abiding requirement for nuclear deterrence.
Kennan, whose writings gave birth to the theory of nuclear deterrence, argued passionately but futilely against the development of the hydrogen bomb.
Nuclear deterrence, this school of thought asserts, was shown to work globally in the cold war and can now be expected to work regionally.
Yet despite great scientific and technological superiority in past decades, U.S. strategic missile and nuclear deterrence protections under the current administration continue to erode.
And it says we'll never use our nuclear deterrence to prevent a massive conventional attack either against the United States or against our allies.
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Secretary Schlesinger also impressed upon Senators that, notwithstanding the end of the Cold War, the United States has an abiding requirement for nuclear deterrence.
Rejection of such a consensus on a treaty that affects fundamental questions of nuclear deterrence would be an extraordinary action for the Senate to take.
Finally, the unraveling situation on the Korean Peninsula also underscores that there are real risks associated with the United States even trying to de-emphasize nuclear deterrence.
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In their missive, the signatories have thrown down the gauntlet, aligning themselves with an approach to nuclear deterrence fundamentally at odds with that of Team Obama.
Topics covered included defense sequestration, nuclear deterrence, terrorist detainee policy, the USA PATRIOT Act, North Korea, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Law of the Sea Treaty.
The solution to Iran's search for the means to nuclear deterrence lies in a comprehensive regional approach based on universal principles of non-proliferation, safeguards and international inspections.
History suggests that, in the absence of nuclear deterrence, the world would eventually be plunged yet again into the sort of cataclysm that twice scarred the 20th Century.
The critical contribution of U.S. nuclear deterrence was left unspoken.
"Kaesong provided a compelling and damning alternative narrative to its own list of 'accomplishments, ' including nuclear deterrence against external aggressors, " Mr. Snyder wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
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One such challenge was whether the United States, with a military strategy based on credible nuclear deterrence, could maintain a highly reliable stockpile of nuclear weapons indefinitely without testing.
We believe the Senate must reject the permanent ban on testing that this Treaty would impose so long as the Nation depends upon nuclear deterrence to safeguard its security.
Subsequent military drills in South Korea, including displays of nuclear-capable bombers by the U.S., meant North Korea "keenly felt the need to bolster up its nuclear deterrence, " the statement said.
During the Cold War, nuclear deterrence was clearly defined.
They survived because missile warning is crucial to nuclear deterrence, but plenty of other military systems ended up being killed when an undisciplined requirements process produced designs that were unworkable or unaffordable.
Those who disagree often cite mostly positive political changes in the former Soviet Union as a principal reason why the U.S. is today less in need of nuclear deterrence than in the past.
The US already offers South Korea a "nuclear umbrella", but Cold War experts have pointed out that while nuclear deterrence may address the possibility of all-out war, it does not deter low-level incidents.
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