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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Failed Deterrence. Thread starter uk 75 Start date 11 June Tags cold war cold war ii early 21st century late 20th century. Status Not open for further replies. Joined 27 September Messages 6, Reaction score 6, The Cold War in retrospect seems almost an oasis of reasonable behaviour.
There were other occasions notably Able Archer when one side feared a possible war. In contrast we now live in a world where Russia and N Korea threaten nuclear war almost monthy and China and Iran make it clear that they are not detered by US nuclear weapons from taking military action, notably. Many in the West equate Ukraine to the Czech crisis in and urge the West to prepare for lengthy confrontation and even conventional war against Russia and China.
However, the West has relied for so long on threatening to use nuclear weapons itself in any general war that it is hard to see how US and UK governments can persuade voters that deterrence is not enough. It is true that the Reagan administration did succeed in increasing NATO readiness to resist Soviet aggression with conventional forces from days to weeks and even months.
