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  • and stoning to death, for the sake of deterrence, goes on every Friday (the day of rest) in any big city as a civic spectacle open to everybody; ...
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  • of polygraph results for the detection or deterrence of spying. Failure of a polygraph test could cause revocation of a security clearance, but ...
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  • result. This could be considered a corollary to deterrence theory. In sociology or criminology, the PD may be applied to an actual dilemma facing ...
    41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
  • promoted the concept of nuclear deterrence. During the debate, Sagan discussed the concept of nuclear winter and made his famous analogy, equating ...
    39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
  • politics of mutual nuclear annihilation and deterrence. His first overtly political one-act play is One for the Road (1984). In 1985 Pinter stated that ...
    89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
  • would endanger the nation's nuclear deterrence versus the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, by 1979 he was pushing for ...
    48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
  • In the meantime, France had initiated an independent nuclear deterrence program, spearheaded by the "Force de frappe" ("Striking ...
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  • through a combination of military deterrence, economic concessions to Germany, and good fortune, as larger events during the war delayed an invasion ...
    52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
  • the West Bank to reduce Palestinian terrorism by deterrence or by armed intervention, while relinquishing some degree of political control. ...
    51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
  • criminal justice approach relies primarily on deterrence, incarceration, and the punishment and rehabilitation of perpetrators. In recent decades ...
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  • Kingdom, who supported Reagan's policies of deterrence against the Soviets. Although the administration negotiated arms-reduction treaties ...
    55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
  • played an important part in Cold War mutual deterrence, as both the United States and the Soviet Union had the credible ability to conduct a retaliatory ...
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