Deterrence Quotes

The cost effectiveness is irrelevant. The objective is deterrence. - Barnett Lotstein

Strengthen the Japan-US alliance and maintain the (US military)
deterrence. - Junichiro Koizumi

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence. - Mohamed ElBaradei

Our history with India shows nuclear weapons working as deterrence. - Tasnim Aslam

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that. - Charles Horner

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. - Hannah Arendt

New framework of deterrence. - Donald Rumsfeld

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. - Yoshihiko Noda

It serves us best when it's never used, and hopefully it will never be used at all. Deterrence is 24/7. - David Schwoegler