Quotes About Deterrence

Oppenheimer explained that nuclear weapons had created a revolution in foreign policy. No defense against them was possible, only deterrence, or frightening away adversaries through the threat of assured destruction.

As the international relations scholar Hedley Bull noted, "mutual nuclear deterrence Ã¢â'¬Â¦ does not make nuclear war impossible, but simply renders it irrational," but then added that a rational strategist is one "who on further acquaintance reveals himself as a university professor of unusual intellectual subtlety."86

We are moving from Iron Dome to an Iron fist.

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.