Supporters of the Star Wars defense system hope that this would not only protect a nation against an actual nuclear attack, but would be enough of a threat to keep a nuclear war from ever happening.

星球大战防御绻统的支持者们希望它不仅能保护一个遭受核攻击的国家，也希望它能成为使核攻击游不发生的足够威胁。

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Supporters of the Star Wars defense system hope that this would not only protect a nationagainst an actual nuclear attack, but would be enough of a threat to keep a nuclear war fromever happening.

星球大战防御系统的支持者们希望它不仅能保护一个遭受核攻击的国家，也希望它能成为使核攻击永不发生的足够威胁。

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Supporters of the Star Wars defense system hope that this would not only protect a nation against an actual nuclear attack, but would be enough of a threat to keep a nuclear war from ever happening.

星球大战防御系统的支持者们希望它不仅能保护一个遭受核攻击的国家，也希望它能成为使核攻击永不发生的足够威胁。

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He is expected to press Israel not to carry out its threat to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Today's nuclear threat differs from that of the Cold War, according to U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "The threat of nuclear war, nuclear attack that we grew up with in the Cold War has diminished.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

For a country as small as Israel, even a small-scale nuclear attack could be an existential threat.

ECONOMIST: Conflict in the Middle East

During the Cold War, when the United States faced the threat of a nuclear attack, U.S. administrations made clear that any strike would prompt an all-out retaliation.

NPR: Cyberattack: U.S. Unready For Future Face Of War

And the weaker party, if nuclear capable, invariably holds out the threat of nuclear war as a way to deter conventional attack.

CNN: The Terrible Logic of Nukes