WordNet: nuclear deterrence

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"

• domain: topic armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine

• hypernym deterrence

• hypernym doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought

nuclear deterrence

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