DETERRENCE PREVENTED WAR BETWEEN THE US AND THE USSR. War, Nuclear War, and Nuclear Deterrence Some Conceptual and Moral Issues. Richard Wasserstrom. Ethics, Vol. 95, No. 3, Special Issue Symposium on Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence (Apr, 1985), pp. 424-444. Published by The University of Chicago Press. Stable URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/2381030 However, by convincing the Soviet Union that a nuclear attack on it will occur should it do any of these things, the United States can lead the Soviet Union to decide that it is not in its interests so to act. The costs of such an attack on the Soviet Union by the United States simply have to be made perceptibly and decidedly greater than any benefits capable of being realized by the Soviet Union through action that would produce the threatened nuclear response. Thus the nuclear attacks or other aggressive acts by the Soviet Union that might otherwise have occurred are deterred and in that way prevented by the threatened response.
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