"Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the……" — Herman Kahn

More Deterrence Quotes

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the… — Hannah Arendt
• The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight… — Unknown Author
• If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is… — Thomas Szasz
• The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and… — Ronald Reagan
• The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but… — Victor Davis Hanson
• New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much… — David Lange
• Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn… — David Lange
• We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. — John Spratt
• Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved;… — George Bernard Shaw
• What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear… — John Hersey
• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter… — Barbara Deming
• Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. — Sterling Hayden

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