Word: counterbluff
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...marginalized states like Iran that they can seek atomic weapons without much risk. "If you get this one wrong, it's hard to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again," says Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington. In this dangerous game of bluff and counterbluff, North Korea has raised the stakes again...
...days later Japan brought its ebb-&-flow, bluff-&-counterbluff attack to the flood for a fourth time, smashed through to a final decision. The French agreed to permit three Japanese air stations in Tonkin, with 6,000 troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with...
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