#deterrence

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. ↗

— John Hersey

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Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that. ↗

— Charles Horner

#deterrence #hussein #nuclear #outside #russian

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence". ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#amount #balance #been #concepts #constitutes

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#amid #country #deterrence #difficult #geographically

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#itself #morality #primary #safety #value

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deterrence #nuclear #philosophy #present

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#deterrence #dictator #enemy #friend #made

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#attack #deterrence #enemy #fear #mind

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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