Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forgetting another important detail: the reason why the codes have come into vogue. Incidents of racial violence on college campuses--physical violence--have risen sharply in the 1980s. It is in reaction to the increase in violent acts that college administrations are passing the codes. The intent is to deter some of the violence by cutting it off at its source: verbal discriminatory harassment that aims to disrupt rather than contribute to the educational environment...
...homicidal or even genocidal the enemy is thought to be, he is not supposed to be suicidal. Deterrence presupposes not only the capacity to retaliate but also sanity and the imperative of self-preservation on both sides. A madman bent on self- destruction is, almost by definition, impossible to deter. It has always required a suspension of disbelief to imagine a sane Soviet leadership, no matter how cold-blooded, calculating that it could, in any meaningful sense, get away with an attack on the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Even if all American land-based missiles were destroyed...