Its detection capabilities already represent a significant deterrent to any would be testers of nuclear weapons.

As long as some countries placed strategic reliance on nuclear weapons as a deterrent, other countries would emulate them.

Complete the CTBTO s verification regime, which all states should support as a powerful deterrent to any would be nuclear testers.

As long as such a hostile policy continues, the self defensive nuclear deterrent means will likewise continue to be strengthened.

Too many observers forget that China s nuclear force is a deterrent only far too small to be a first strike force. And China is among the first countries prepared to make a no first use pledge, provided other nuclear powers reciprocate.

Japan officially endorses the objective of a non nuclear world, but it relies on America s extended nuclear deterrent, and wants to avoid being subject to nuclear blackmail from North Korea (or China). The Japanese fear that the credibility of American extended deterrence will be weakened if the US decreases its nuclear forces to parity with China.

So long as nuclear weapons remain, states can justify maintaining a minimum nuclear deterrent capability. But that can be done without weapons on high alert, and with drastically reduced arsenals in the case of the US and Russia, and, at worst, at current levels for the other nuclear armed states.

Tidings containing a deterrent have come to them

Tidings containing a deterrent have come to them

Recognises that Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols have a deterrent effect on nuclear proliferation and form today's verification standard, and continues to work for increased detectability of any violations of Treaty obligations.

Call for universal accession to the comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols, and recognize that comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols have a deterrent effect on nuclear proliferation and form today's verification standard

And there came to them news containing a deterrent.

And there came to them news containing a deterrent.

Another issue constraining nuclear disarmament is Russia s view that, without nuclear weapons, its military capabilities would be no match for the conventional forces of the US and NATO. Indeed, many in Russia worry that a US attack against Russia s nuclear deterrent and other defense assets that relies on America s growing stock of long range, precision guided conventional weapons would be as devastating as a nuclear strike.

Mr. Vidošević (Croatia) said that the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had proved to be the most important legal deterrent against proliferation while at the same time promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, in the process enhancing both regional and global security and stability.

And there have come to them such tidings as contain a deterrent

And there have come to them such tidings as contain a deterrent

And assuredly there hath come Unto them tidings wherein is a deterrent.

And assuredly there hath come Unto them tidings wherein is a deterrent.

One of Russia s main concerns is America s efforts to build up its ballistic missile defense system (BMDS). Although experts have disputed the capacity of America s BMDS, Russian leaders remain convinced that it could seriously undermine Russia s nuclear deterrent.

The primary purpose of sanctions in the cartel context is as a deterrent.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to initiating a trilateral dialogue is Chinese resistance to formal nuclear arms control agreements, which is rooted in the memory of Cold War era nonproliferation initiatives aimed partly at preventing China from developing its own nuclear deterrent. Since then, Chinese officials have insisted that they do not belong in US Russian strategic arms talks, because the two countries nuclear arsenals dwarf theirs.

The third analogy is reflected in Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert s recent references to Israel s nuclear deterrent, which may have been a mistake, but probably indicate the evolution of Israeli strategic thinking. Olmert seemed to be reminding the Iranians of the hard realities of nuclear deterrence Iran may join the nuclear club someday, but it will return to the Stone Age if it uses those weapons against a country that has a far more advanced nuclear arsenal.

Eight years later, pinned down by a US Predator drone and French airstrikes, Qaddafi met his demise. Without a nuclear deterrent, his regime was helpless when the US reneged on the deal a lesson that has not been lost on North Korea.

The presence of these forces is an increasingly important deterrent to the resumption of hostilities.

Based on that doubt, France a nuclear power since 1960 withdrew in 1966 from the Alliance s permanent centralized military command in order to assert its own deterrent capability. This decision was mainly grounded on the American doctrine, adopted in 1962, of flexible response, which said to the Soviets As long as you do not use nuclear weapons, we will not use them, either.

They can serve both as an incentive to forego the acquisition of WMD and as a deterrent.

CAMBRIDGE Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the United States Japan Security Treaty, a central feature of stability in East Asia for half a century. But now, with the Japanese experiencing a period of domestic political uncertainty, and North Korea s nuclear tests and missile launches increasing their anxiety, will Japan reverse its long standing decision not to seek a national nuclear deterrent capability?

Spooked by Russia s incursions into Ukraine, North Korea s erratic intransigence, and China s new foreign policy assertiveness, US allies and partners in East Asia and Europe have rushed back to unthinking embrace of Cold War assumptions about the deterrent utility of nuclear weapons and their central importance in security policy.

Thus We made it a deterrent for their generation, and for subsequent generations, and a lesson for the righteous.

Thus We made it a deterrent for their generation, and for subsequent generations, and a lesson for the righteous.

Real or perceived political instability has represented the principal deterrent to foreign and regional investment in plants and equipment.

United Nations inspections combined with sanctions may have been a deterrent to Iraq in continuing its biological weapons programme.

Thus, the Senegalese delegation is of the view that rigorous application of such sanctions would act as a real deterrent.

Such progress will not only bring to justice perpetrators of heinous crimes but also serve as a deterrent to future atrocities.

France, uniquely in Western Europe, built its own independent nuclear deterrent, and has been a champion of creating a European military capacity outside NATO. Without explicitly challenging US leadership, France tried to build its own Ostpolitik with Russia, and to use its axis with Germany to create a European position on foreign policy.

And We made it a deterrent unto those of their day and those after them, and an exhortation unto the God fearing.

And We made it a deterrent unto those of their day and those after them, and an exhortation unto the God fearing.

Do not make Allah a deterrent through your oaths, that you be righteous, cautious, and reform between people. Surely, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

Do not make Allah a deterrent through your oaths, that you be righteous, cautious, and reform between people. Surely, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

And We made it a deterrent punishment for those who were present and those who succeeded them and a lesson for those who fear Allah.

And We made it a deterrent punishment for those who were present and those who succeeded them and a lesson for those who fear Allah.

In addition, Tunisian criminal law applies deterrent provisions to those who violate these arrangements, in support of the national effort aimed at regulating this sector.

The situation of de facto impunity arising from this situation of exile can only undermine respect for international law and thereby lessen its deterrent effect.

That makes you pause gives you some pause those of you who believe that a death penalty's going to have an enormous deterrent effect on crime.