Word: shakier
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Temporary shifts in military power may motivate a country to initiate a preventive war. In situations of tension, failures of men and equipment can lead to disaster. Other countries, in their local feuds, may ultimately involve the major powers. The spread of nuclear weapons to many countries, some with shakier traditions than those of the present nuclear powers, creates still greater instability. Dangers from repeated risks mount toward certainty. Against these dangers nuclear deterrence provides no security...