You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U. S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre
Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.
My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.
If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.
The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.
If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.
Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.
Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?
Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.
The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons.
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required
The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.
