balance of terror

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balance of terror

Military deterrence based on the possession of weapons of mass destruction by opposing powers.

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both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of Mankind's final war.

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