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The reason for this collection of papers and for the Institute’s 21st Annual Conference, held in 1979, for which they were prepared, is explained more easily in the negative than in the positive. We felt that the old concepts of deterrence, so ably and persuasively developed in the 1950s and early 1960s, were due for re-examination, that by the law of plausibility the changes in the world we are living in must have affected the tenets of strategic deterrence as they have everything else, and that it would be necessary to adapt the concepts to the realities in order to produce a basis for rational policies for the future.
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Bertram, C. (1981). Introduction. In: Bertram, C. (eds) The Future of Strategic Deterrence. International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference Papers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06186-0_1
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