#deterrence

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#always #assure #comes #democrats #deter

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. ↗

— John Spratt

#deterrence #got #nuclear #nuclear weapons #order

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence. ↗

— John Bolton

#classic #deterrence #happier #life #regime

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #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

#bomb #deterrence #fear #happened #hiroshima

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