The answer is True. Yes, the effectiveness of nuclear deterrence depends on the credibility of threats to impose unacceptable military, economic, and human costs on a target.
What do you understand about nuclear deterrence?
- The concept of Nuclear Deterrence aims to prevent war.
- The Deterrence theory advocates that limited use of power from one end will also encourage the other end to not use any power against each other.
- Therefore, in nuclear deterrence both the parties refrain from using nuclear weapons first as they know the other one is equally capable of using it.
- During the cold war era between the US and the USSR, this logic of deterrence prevented a third world war from starting.
- We can also say that nuclear deterrence is the ability to prevent a direct nuclear conflict from breaking out.
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