In nuclear strategy, minimal deterrence, also known as minimum deterrence and finite deterrence, is an application of deterrence theory in which a state...

surpassed. Instead, the policy of the Minimum Credible Deterrence falls under minimal deterrence as an inverse to the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)...

Deterrence theory refers to the scholarship and practice of how threats of using force by one party can convince another party to refrain from initiating...

use (NFU) with an assured second strike capability and falls under minimal deterrence, as opposed to mutually assured destruction. India's tentative nuclear...

destruction defence strategy, though one side may have a lower level minimal deterrence response. Second-strike capabilities can be further strengthened by...

Robert S. Norris; Ivan Oelrich (April 2009). "From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence: A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons"...

Menon said reflected India's "strategic culture, with its emphasis on minimal deterrence. In April 2013 Shyam Saran, convener of the National Security Advisory...

Menon said reflected India's "strategic culture, with its emphasis on minimal deterrence". India argues that the NPT creates a club of "nuclear haves" and...

peaceful coexistence with the United States, while maintaining a minimal deterrence, declaring that "a new world war ... with modern weapons means the...

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net costs to engage in conflict are reduced." Nuclear peace Minimal deterrence Deterrence theory Snyder, Glenn Herald (1965). The Balance of Power and...

Menon said reflected India's "strategic culture, with its emphasis on minimal deterrence". However, whether the policy shift actually took place or not is...

his mission, and the size of his fleet was part of a strategy of "minimal deterrence" against Corinth. Notes The most ancient attestation of this word...

and Nagasaki that killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people. Nuclear deterrence, sometimes based on mutually assured destruction, aims to prevent nuclear...

credible minimal deterrence with regard to the continental United States and Russia; a more offensive-oriented posture of "limited deterrence" with regard...

Federation. An example of fail-deadly and mutual assured destruction deterrence, it can initiate the launch of the Russian intercontinental ballistic...

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fore American deterrence vis-à-vis Iran. John Bolton, however, called the attacks "a massive failure of Israeli and American deterrence" and described...

(2010-03-15). "Targeted Killings in Afghanistan: Measuring Coercion and Deterrence in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency". Studies in Conflict & Terrorism...

opacity" has been interpreted as an attempt to get the benefits of deterrence with a minimal political cost. As of 2006, some analysts believe that, due to...

nuclear weapon accidents, civil defense, India’s nuclear doctrine, minimal deterrence and anti-ballistic-missile and early warning systems. He has repeatedly...

theories allow some failures of deterrence. On the other hand, deterrence theories ("the penalty for a crime should be the minimal one necessary to deter commission...

any jail in which the prisoners are trusted to complete sentences with minimal supervision and perimeter security and are often not locked up in their...

it is the right policy and that there is "clear evidence" of serious deterrence, and that the law should be looked at upon in the wider context of "saving...

"assertive" and "aggressive", and possibly established a new level of deterrence with Pakistan. The Times noted that in its initial strikes, India struck...

"Technology-Strategy Seminar: NATO's AirLand Battle Strategy and Future Extended Deterrence". Center for Strategic & International Studies Center for Strategic &...

delivered to the enemy's interior was considered advantageous in maintaining deterrence and would become the basis of the US strategic arsenal. Flexible response...

Range in September 2020, in an ongoing campaign for achieving integrated deterrence. By 2020 Project Convergence, a campaign of learning, was pressed into...

maiden flight in April 1952. Built to carry nuclear weapons for Cold War deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36 Peacemaker...