Definitions for nuclear deterrence
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1. nuclear deterrencenoun

   the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence

   "when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction"

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1. nuclear deterrence

   Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. It is based on the theory of rational deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. The strategy is a form of Nash equilibrium in which, once armed, neither side has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm. The term "mutual assured destruction", commonly abbreviated "MAD", was coined by Donald Brennan, a strategist working in Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute in 1962. However, Brennan came up with this acronym ironically, spelling out the English word "mad" to argue that holding weapons capable of destroying society was irrational.

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1. nuclear deterrence

   Nuclear deterrence is a military strategy in which a country uses the threat of nuclear weapons to discourage or deter another country from attacking or engaging in hostile action. The idea behind this strategy is that the potential devastation caused by nuclear weapons would be so great that no aggressor would risk triggering such a conflict. A country possessing nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them is thereby assumed to deter potential adversaries from initiating any military aggression.

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   The numerical value of nuclear deterrence in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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   The numerical value of nuclear deterrence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of nuclear deterrence in a Sentence

1. Lloyd Austin:

   Our view of deterrence has to rise above the old stovepipes that can build up in any big organization, deterrence in the space and cyber domains, and nuclear deterrence itself, shouldn't be seen as somehow entirely separate from the sweep of our operations.

2. Koh Yu-hwan:

   Considering the fact that North Korea said the 7-minute test conducted last night was to bolster the strategic nuclear deterrence, the test would likely be related to ICBMs, which North Korea considers a strategic weapon to defend North Korea from adversaries including the United States, north Korea is close to issuing an ultimatum toward United States to come to the negotiating table with new calculations or to return to developing nuclear weapons.

3. Zhang Baohui:

   China will be very sensitive about any moves by Japan or South Korea to improve missile defenses, north Korea may be the stated reason, but Chinese strategists will it see as a move against China to limit its nuclear deterrence.

4. The Pentagon report:

   China will likely conduct its first (submarine) nuclear deterrence patrol sometime in 2015.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nuclear deterrence
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Deterrence
3. ^ ChatGPT
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