As a result, even lower-ranking males could now impose dreadful blows on their strongest competitors, especially in surprise attacks, the ensuing evenly distributed capacity to inflict terrorizing wounds leading to a genuine balance of deterrence in within-team antagonistic competition.
Both may be looking to create a new strategic balance of deterrence and alter the rules of the game, but it is unlikely that either will respond with a large-scale military escalation in the immediate future.
The deployment of longer-range rockets that have now been shown to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is also beginning to shift what has been an overwhelmingly one-sided balance of deterrence.
Early humans escaped this political straitjacket thanks to the antagonistic balance of deterrence afforded by handheld weapons.
The balance of deterrence afforded by handheld weapons is the single cultural trigger proposed here to explain the origin of this evolutionary singularity, with all its intricate mix of darker and brighter consequences.
They had first sounded the alarm in "As U.S. Modernizes Nuclear Weapons, 'Smaller' Leaves Some Uneasy", New York Times, January 12 , 2016 1. Nuclear deterrence, based on a balance of terror (and mutual assured destruction) between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War, worked.
THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- As you no doubt know, deterrence is the product of a balance of power -- nuclear arsenals, in other words, that are roughly equal.
For example, there are a number of reasons why the law might justifiably punish successful crimes more severely than merely attempted ones, including the balancing of deterrence and privacy (Rosebury 521 24).
The balance of terror between America and the Soviet Union evolved into a choreography of deterrence involving successive arms-control deals in which both sides understood that their own security depended upon respecting the security needs of the other.The world today is both safer and more dangerous.
