Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets or Colonel Muammar Khaddafy might at any time decide to utilize the knowledge to secure quick and easy military victory and the world would have no recourse. The U.S. and the USSR--and perhaps Britain, China and France--could keep a few nuclear weapons to deter third-party countries from seeking such advantage, but this would increase the likelihood of strategic calculations for alliances between the nations and strategies to win nuclear...
...substantial advantage in conventional-troop strength in Europe. After 13 years of bargaining in Vienna over Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, there are signs of progress, but the imbalance is not soon to be rectified. Thus NATO must still rely on medium- and short-range nuclear missiles to deter a Soviet attack...
...fact, any rapprochement with Washington seems a long way off. The House of Representatives last week defeated a measure that would have barred covert U.S. aid to UNITA unless it was approved by Congress. Such signals are unlikely to deter Dos Santos. Not long ago a diplomat applying for a site to build an embassy in a choice Luanda location was surprised to find that it was reserved...
...rules may help deter some of the 30,000 so-called economic refugees who are expected to step into the transit lounges at West German airports this year and request asylum. But the measures will not directly block those who fly to East Berlin and then make their way from there to the West. Iranians in Turkey report paying $1,000 for flights into East Berlin on Interflug, the East German airline, and those from South Asia pay even more to jet in on the Soviet carrier Aeroflot...
Although the intermittent drizzle which fell throughout the evening did not deter the expected crowd of 50,000 people from attending, the scheduled events did not hold the crowd's attention and many people departed before the event's 10:30 conclusion...