Balance of terror

The balance of terror is a elaborate Doctrine at the time of the Cold war, while the “blocks” of the is and of the western (the first made up of Soviet Union and its satellites within the Warsaw Pact, the second, of the the United States and its allies within NATO) was devoted to a Arms race making the confrontation so dangerous that none the belligerents could have the advantage in the event of Third World war.

It is at that time that one developed considerably the ballistic missiles and various vectors of nuclear weapons (as of 1957, thanks to the launching of the first Artificial satellite, Soviet shows with American that they are able to launch intercontinental missiles). The powers made up represented forces of destruction able “ to make jump several times the planet ”, according to a popular expression very in vogue at the time, in the event of nuclear Guerre.

The doctrines implied by this expression are analyzed like the capacity for each block to destroy the other by a massive nuclear attack in the event of Agression: the first which tries to destroy the other is to some extent ensured to be destroyed in its turn, completely cancelling the interest of such an attack. American thus gives up the doctrines of the " reprisals massives" for that of a measured reaction.

The unreasonable quantity of armaments deployed on both sides resulted in trying many negotiations, before managing partial agreements of Désarmement (for example the agreements SALT or of Négociations on the limitation of the strategic armaments starting from 1969).

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