Word: deterence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policemen's wives who opposed the measure believed that it would endanger their husband's lives. This fear is understandable, but abolition of capital punishment in other states has not increased the number of police officers or other citizens murdered each year. To deter those on whom long imprisonment can no longer have any effect the bill did retain the electric chair for criminals who killed policemen or prison guards while under indictment for murder or serving life prison sentences...
...nuclear weapons makes total war improbable. Peace "through mutual terror." Churchill called it. A corollary of this concept is that in a nuclear stalemate the threat of nuclear retaliation ceases to be an effective deterrent to small-scale aggression with conventional weapons. In other words, nuclear stalemate can deter big wars but not little wars. To lessen the U.S.'s reliance on what the late John Foster Dulles called "massive retaliatory power," the Kennedy Administration has built up the U.S.'s conventional military forces, increasing Army combat divisions from 11 to 16 and Air Force tactical wings from...
...today is engaged in not one, but two nuclear arms races. Its first and overriding concern, of course, is to deter Soviet aggression and to be capable of massive retaliation if the Russians should attack the West. Washington's second aim, however, is less strategic than political; it could be called the theory of the massive placebo, since its primary purpose is not to deter the foes of the U.S. but to mollify its friends and discourage the proliferation of nuclear arms. By last week, U.S. placebo planners had succeeded only in frustrating and perplexing the very allies they...
...retaliate violently. The organization has always adhered closely to the policy of non-violence, hoping that it will exert a strong enough moral force to help rapid integration. But non-violence does not work at pistol point, especially if there is no effective agency of the law to deter prospective killers. The FBI and Justice Department in Mississippi have not been effective...
...strategic commitment to Europe, and heedless of the fact that 400,000 G.I.s on the Continent are a permanent U.S. hostage to Europe's security. Yet neither France's embryonic force de frappe nor Britain's near-obsolete V-bomber strike force carries sufficient punch to deter, let alone defeat, an aggressor...