Prevent, stop, discourage.
The thirty-foot tall wall at America's southern border is of little deterence to the economically-oppressed.
Dulles was an anti communist who supported deterence.
These are referred to as deterrents. The Arms Race, a part of the Cold War, was based on mutual deterence. Neither side could hope to overwhelm the other with the weapons they had.
I think the term you are looking for is Mutually Assured Destruction or deterrence but I'll list some other cold war/nuclear war termonolgy that you might find useful as well. -Brinkmanship: The idea that one never backs down causing the other side to back down first. -Massive Retaliation: This was an American ideal that if America got attacked they would retaliate with massive amounts of bombs. -Mutual Deterence: Its the idea that your country has enough nuclear weapons to defeat the opposing country, and this should act as a deterrence against them acting you. -MAD (Mutually Assure Destruction): A theory that two countries could use its ability to launch a nuclear counterattack to stop the other side from striking. As a result, both side's counties are blown apart.
you mean what you mean
It mean what you don't what does it mean.
Mean is the average.
What does GRI mean? What does GRI mean?
The correct usage is "what DOES it mean"
The haudensaunee mean irguios
he was a mean person who lived with mean people in a mean castle on a mean hill in a mean country in a mean continent in a mean world in a mean solar system in a mean galaxy in a mean universe in a mean dimension
as you do