He was instrumental in the constitution of the French nuclear arsenal.

F. Strategic doctrines and nuclear deterrence

F. Strategic doctrines and nuclear deterrence problems

We must persist in averting the dangerous strategy of nuclear deterrence.

I firmly doubt the need to dispense with deterrence.

In this context the system of nuclear detterence is considered a component in the overall system of military security in Europe.

So long as nuclear weapons remain, states can justify maintaining a minimum nuclear deterrent capability.

We must act together in the future.

Mr Antoniozzi had in fact tabled that motion in a personal cap acity, and not on behalf of the group, as Mr Tridente said.

But, among states, even nuclear deterrence was more complex than it first looked, and that is doubly true of deterrence in the cyber domain.

Israel s nuclear deterrence is its ultimate defense against an existential threat.

MAD simply won t work for a mad man who is guided by quasi messianic certitude.

Withdrawal of these weapons would not mean the end of nuclear deterrence for Europe, as deterrence will remain necessary until the last nuclear weapon is dismantled.

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

What is called the zero option could in fact endanger the Europe United States link.

There are some men of courage, in a few countries, who are prepared to stand up to this political class and show the true way for ward to their fellow citizens.

No one knows her opinion on the Middle East, terrorism, nuclear deterrence, and international security.

Unlike the nuclear age, when it comes to deterrence in the cyber era, one size does not fit all.

Thirdly, it must not in any set term include the French nuclear deterrent, as the Soviet Union would like.

PENDERS (PPE). (NL) Mr President, there is one point I should like to make for the benefit of Mr Tridente, who expressed satisfaction that Mr Antoniozzi had withdrawn his motion for a resolution.

Yet Turkey has always argued that a credible NATO nuclear deterrent is vital to the alliance s collective defense.

Now the worldwide wave of support for a full ban on nuclear weapons, or nuclear zero, is being transformed into a debate about nuclear deterrence.

The NPR affirms the policy of extended nuclear deterrence, under which the US retains the option to employ nuclear weapons to defend its allies.

Now the worldwide wave of support for a full ban on nuclear weapons, or nuclear zero, is being transformed into a debate about nuclear deterrence.

The second message is that Cold War nuclear deterrence doctrine is irrelevant to today s world.

I therefore want to ask the Council what thoughts it has for the future, should other incidents occur.

The East West arms race had created an explosive situation. Nuclear deterrents could have failed at any moment.

By limiting strategic missile defense, the old treaty provides a certain predictability of deterrence for all nuclear weapon states.

When the concept of nuclear deterrence was brought in the discussion with reference to its potential applicability to outer space, it was strongly asserted that there is no ground to make such a comparison.

It is this balance, with nuclear deterrence, that has kept the peace in Europe for 40 years.

As events in Pakistan illustrate, the spread of nuclear technology does not extend the stability that comes with mutual deterrence.

It was none other than the United States that pursued us and pushed us systematically to acquire today's physical nuclear deterrence.

We cannot accept that the matter ends there a reduction in the two superpowers' enormous arsenals of strategic weapons needs to be brought about without delay by comprehensive negotiations.

The doctrine of a nuclear pre emptive strike is openly preached to render nuclear deterrence obsolete, and the development of new types of nuclear weapons and their qualitative improvement are rapidly being pursued.

Nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction would be passé only if we assumed that we people, countries, and humankind at large had become so ideal and humane that we no longer needed self deterrence.

Nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction would be passé only if we assumed that we people, countries, and humankind at large had become so ideal and humane that we no longer needed self deterrence.

Some countries undertook to propagate the notion that their nuclear weapons were intended for peaceful purposes, while other countries' capacity for self defence and nuclear deterrence allegedly posed a threat to world peace.

In the period when the emphasis was primarily on the economic sphere this second factor rather receded into the back ground for a while.

Europe perhaps benefited more than any other part of the world from nuclear deterrence, because it helped to preserve peace during the Cold War and prevented nuclear proliferation.

France, uniquely in Western Europe, built its own independent nuclear deterrent, and has been a champion of creating a European military capacity outside NATO.

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).

Although experts have disputed the capacity of America s BMDS, Russian leaders remain convinced that it could seriously undermine Russia s nuclear deterrent.

It is not naïve to believe that nuclear deterrence is both fragile operationally, and of thoroughly dubious utility in sustaining the peace.

Proliferators must know that the NATO allies are unwavering in their commitment to collective defense, including nuclear deterrence.

And it certainly cannot be assumed that there will never be human or technological errors, with harmless events being read as threatening (as in 1995, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin was advised to retaliate immediately against an incoming NATO missile, which proved to be a Norwegian scientific rocket).