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The Cold War was marked by a nuclear stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union. Not surprisingly, many scholars focused their research on considering the best means for avoiding a nuclear exchange between the two superpowers. A primary issue in this genre was related to deterrence, the idea that rational states could be dissuaded from engaging in a first strike. While the threat to international stability is demonstrably more multi-faceted than during the Cold War, scholars and US policy makers have nonetheless continued to devote substantial attention to deterring the use of nuclear weapons.
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Mordeson, J.N., Wierman, M.J., Clark, T.D., Pham, A., Redmond, M.A. (2013). Issues in International Relations. In: Linear Models in the Mathematics of Uncertainty. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 463. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35224-9_3
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