nuclear deterrence

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   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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Questions about nuclear deterrence

What does nuclear deterrence mean?

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

Is nuclear deterrence a common word?

nuclear deterrence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.