However, some academics actually argue that more nuclear weapons might make the Middle East region more stable, because the shadow of nuclear destruction would hang over most disputes between nations.
The pushback will be equally fierce, casting shadows of widespread destruction and violence, mass migrations, virulent ideologies, and ethnic strife.
In the shadow of war, amid destruction and unremitting enmity, what is there to say of life?
Thinking together about these issues in an integrated way can lead to transformational change in Euro-Atlantic security and nuclear and conventional force postures — from the persistent Cold War shadow of mutually assured destruction to mutual security.
"We know by instinct," wrote the novelist WG Sebald, in Austerlitz, "that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins".
And it's why the end of the cold war was bewildering – there was a perverse comfort to be had living in the shadow of mutually assured destruction, a comfort that many Americans evidently still miss if the popularity of Donald Trump's sabre-rattling is anything to go by.
— is imprisoned down in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and not standing trial in the shadow of the towers whose destruction he claims to have masterminded.
In the tropics, the creation of these landscapes has shadowed the destruction of rainforests.
The text reads, "Shadows, rats, fangs, asses, mummies, monsters, and cocks: Omens Symptoms of Degrade Preludes of Destruction Signs of the End.
WHO is the Hindu god of destruction?
