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Deterrence of war has been at the heart of Western security for the past forty years. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, Western leaders have sought to minimise the risk of destruction by maintaining effective nuclear-capable forces to deter aggression and by pursuing complementary arms control agreements. This approach appears to have worked.
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US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Arms Control and Dis-armament Agreements, 1982 edn (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1982) pp. 137–47.
US Department of Defence, Soviet Military Power 1985 (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1985).
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Worden, S.P. (1987). A Global Defence Against Ballistic Missiles. In: Brauch, H.G. (eds) Star Wars and European Defence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08615-3_2
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