Word: inhibitions
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America's nuclear strategy rests on the concept of deterrence. But it ought to be quite clear that deterrence, whatever its merits, is anything but a strategy. Deterrence postulates that an adequate means of retaliation in the hands of one power will inhibit another power from launching a nuclear attack upon it. As such, it is a device for preventing war, not a guideline for the conduct of war. Now the prevention of war is the province of diplomacy, not of military strategy: the latter normally takes over precisely at the point where the former fails and the parties...
...Roberts said the government cannot promote or inhibit religion without violating the Constitution. A similar state statute, allowing prayer before the start of the school day, was struck down by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1973, he said...