As nuclear arsenals grew, each of the two main sides in the Cold War gained second strike capability, rendering a surprise attack moot.
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On that same subject, David Cameron's suggestion that if he won power, he would bring opposition leaders into a war cabinet would strike many people as a very sensible one.
Ending the Iraq war has allowed us to strike decisive blows against our enemies.
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He became a key part of the start of the Falklands war, making the first strike on the country on 1 May 1982 in another Vulcan, only months after the air force started to disband the aircraft from service.
The conflict in Iraq "didn't strike me as a war that was affecting people in my life, " Bowers-Defino said.
But Milne came into conflict with Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government over the BBC's coverage of the miners' strike, the Falklands war and the US bombing of Libya.
The CNN story also notes that the idea of withholding sex is not a new one the ancient Greek play, Lysistrata, tells the story of women who organized a sex strike to end a war between Athens and Sparta.
The ending has a mournful air: the team returned to a studio still smarting from a bitter strike, and then to war.
Washington worries that such a strike could ignite a wider war in which it would be difficult for the U.S. to avoid getting involved.
Panorama chronicled this decade of change with domestic films on Mrs Thatcher's reforming economic and social policies, the Falklands War and of course the Miners' Strike.
We stand ready in the heartland and across this country, to join forces with peace-loving nations across the globe and to fight the war against terrorists, wherever they may strike.
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By the early 1960s, the cold war had reduced the Commander in Chief to a cog in the nuclear-terror machine, a man who might be compelled by the momentum of rapid response and first-strike capabilities to launch a war he didn't want.
It was understood that if nuclear war occurred, either through an attack by the Soviets or a first strike by the United States, time and secrecy made a prior declaration of war by Congress impossible.
Then Serbia which spends less on its military in a year than NATO does in a day managed to shoot down a stealthy U.S. strike aircraft during the Balkan air war in 1999.
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The tenth anniversary of de Gaulle's rule in 1968 was marred by student riots and a general strike, ostensibly against the Vietnam war but which developed into a protest against authoritarian, centralist government in general.
If they fail to strike a deal, post-war Germany's second grand coalition risks going down in history as a failure, for there will be little time to put things right before the end of its term.
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By appealing to the war-weary majority, Mr Wahid hopes to strike a deal on autonomy.
Panetta argued that an Israeli military strike against Iran would lead to regional war.
This was the first such strike since a ceasefire ended the short war between Israel and Hamas in November last year.
We scored all clubs dating back to 1901, omitting the World War II years of 1942-45 and the strike years of 1981 and 1994.
On the war in Kosovo, Mr Allen has struggled to strike an awkward balance between the conservative Republican orthodoxy that the United States should stay out of the Balkans and Virginia's strong military tradition.
At the White House, there were questions today about the timing of this document, coming out on the day when the U.S. military in Iraq launched a major air strike described as the largest since the war began.
Over 700 boys and men, and one woman, crossed swords over eight games, including Counter Strike: Source, Warhammer and StarCraft Brood War.
But he defended the administration, saying it is "trying to strike the right balance" between ending the war and maintaining stability in Iraq.
These insights would be especially useful if the Kremlin still harbors its past ambitions for waging and winning a nuclear war, including the possibility of a "first-strike" attack.
Security Council Monday as to why it undertook military strikes against Afghanistan, and reserved the right to strike against other countries as part of the war against terrorism, administrators and British officials told CNN.
The choices are now what they ever were: an American or an Israeli strike, which would probably cause a substantial war, or living in a world with Iranian nuclear weapons, which may also result in war, perhaps nuclear, over a longer period of time.
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Pyongyang cites upcoming U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises scheduled to begin on March 4, as "reckless war moves" designed to "unleash a total war on the Korean peninsula with a pre-emptive nuclear strike".
He goes on that the US would be sucked into any war, but Mr Obama could not show outright opposition to an Israeli strike, even if he felt it.
North Korea has made multiple threats against both the US and South Korea in recent weeks, including warning of a "pre-emptive nuclear strike" on the US and the scrapping of the Korean War armistice.
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