deterrence

Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said later that France's President Emmanuel Macron had agreed to start talks on Latvia's "accession to the French nuclear deterrence initiative".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"We need to be ensuring that we build deterrence, that we build balance, so that we can provide for the peace and stability of the region in which we live," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

“If Taiwan can convert the six-year annual-budget framework into timely, predictable, and sufficiently large procurement orders, the spending can strengthen both deterrence and the resilience and competitiveness of Taiwan’s domestic uncrewed-systems industrial base,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“For Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has become a strategic lever for deterrence, maintaining the regional balance of power, and reshaping the security rules in the Persian Gulf,” said Mostafa Najafi, a Tehran-based security analyst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Henry Kissinger, a contemporary politician, wrote: “Deterrence depends, above all, on psychological criteria. For purposes of deterrence, a bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan