balance of terror

I think that the balance of terror will hold up.

This is nothing like the old nuclear balance of terror.

As the 1990 election year begins, a balance of terror has set in.

So we don't want to upset the balance of terror.

Our mutual security need no longer depend on a nuclear balance of terror.

Think of it as our own little balance of terror.

This same man is elsewhere said to be "obsessed with the international balance of terror."

Can wars be made less likely by new regional nuclear balances of terror?

The balance of terror prevented war directly between the nuclear powers.

The peace between East and West was kept, but by a balance of terror.

Nuclear deterrence is sometimes referred to as the "balance of terror."

The balance of terror is based on a bluff.

After these cuts are completed in 10 years, the cold war balance of terror will be replaced by a new imbalance.

More than a dozen nations have joined - or soon may join - the nuclear club, increasing the balance of terror.

Mutually assured destruction, or the balance of terror, rested on two assumptions.

Every time they kill us, we will kill them, so the balance of terror can be achieved."

The true balance of terror lay not with the ships but with the subs.

Perhaps by luck, perhaps because it was the only rational outcome, the balance of terror has held fast.

There's no other way for the state to protect itself except through a balance of terror, through revenge."

Here it was a balance of terror.

That balance of terror has always been unsettling and should be supplanted by a less threatening calculus.

And if they succeed, the Confederation will be plunged into a deterrence cycle, a balance of terror.

"What we're talking about in the north is basically preserving the balance of terror," Ghani told the group.

And it will certainly mark a global turning point: It is the first election since the end of the balance of terror.

Behind the facade of pastoral peace, there is an uneasy balance of terror in the countryside.