A second way is to enhance deterrence through punishment.
At its most dramatic, this automation was assumed in the nuclear deterrence posture of launch on warning.
But the Alliance's conventional forces alone cannot ensure credible deterrence.
For ' minimum credible deterrence ' India does not need 150 to 400 nuclear warheads.
Game theory was also developed into a central element of the deterrence paradigm.
He could visualize no effective defense against such weapons and so nuclear deterrence could be the only practical future strategy.
However, these means do not provide a nation the same prestige and degree of deterrence or coercive diplomacy associated with ICBMs.
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In theory at least this allowed for the hope that as nonproliferation succeeded so the salience of nuclear deterrence doctrine would whither.
It had also made warfare far more destructive, potentially strengthening deterrence.
More importantly, neither side has experience of mutual deterrence.
Our interest is to maintain the nuclear deterrence which has been established at the lowest possible level.
The SSNs contribute to peace and security by providing conventional deterrence.
The wide disparity in the fissile material stockpiles of India and Pakistan could erode the stability of nuclear deterrence.
Their contributions all served to reinforce the view that " deterrence " was the only proper purpose for nuclear weapons.
Therefore, we provide a potent deterrence against action toward coalition ground forces.
They do not have to bear the whole weight of strategic nuclear deterrence - that ultimate sanction wielded by nuclear weapons states.
Ways must be found to lessen, and ultimately overcome, their reliance on nuclear deterrence.
Yet it is safer and easier to replace deterrence with elimination of all WMD.