#deterrence

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

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

— Sterling Hayden

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

— Ann Coulter

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