Balance of terror

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The phrase " terror balance " is usually, but not always, used in reference to a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

This illustrates the weak peace that exists between the two countries as a result of both governments fearing the prospect of a devastating nuclear war. The term is usually used for rhetorical purposes, and possibly invented by Lester Pearson in June 1955 on the 10th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter: "the balance of terror has replaced the balance of power".

Some political scientists use this phrase as a means of distinguishing the world situation that follows World War II from what precedes it. Previously, the kingdom had prevented war from one another by maintaining the relative balance of their ability (economic, military, and politics) to fight each other - the phrase "balance of power" is often used to describe such a tentative peace..

The atomic bomb creates a new political reality, in which the two superpowers have the ability to destroy each other and at least undermine all human civilization. The obstacle to war between communist and capitalist is no longer the fear that the other side is stronger, but the realization that nuclear weapons are now large enough and deadly enough that winning will still result in the destruction of the state itself and possibly the whole world as well.

In a way contrary to this intuition, the existence of the most powerful weapon ever created actually supports a kind of peace: while many wars occurred throughout the world during the Cold War, the superpower never directly disputed each other, nor did atomic bombs dropped in war. since the Nagasaki atomic bomb of 1945.

Lawrence Summers, following the financial crisis of 2008, adopted an appropriate term for the 'financial balance of terror' situation in the global marketplace.

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Usage

John F. Kennedy used this phrase in his inaugural address in 1961, when he described the US and the Soviet Union, "the two of them are racing to change the uncertain equilibrium of the terror that remains the hand of the final war of mankind"./li>

Albert Wohlstetter of RAND Corporation wrote a paper entitled "The Delicate Balance of Terror" in 1958.

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See also

• Power balance
• Strength balance in international relations
• The threat balance
• The denial theory
• Long Peace
• Mutually confident of destruction
• Nuclear peace
• Peace through strength
• Reagan doctrine

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