nuclear deterrence

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

ism philosophy doctrine deterrence school of thought philosophical system

Examples

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. Joseph Rotblat

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

when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

nuclear democracy nuclear demolition nuclear destruction nuclear deterrent nuclear detonation nuclear devastation