nuclear brinkmanship
Warhead-backed diplomacy game
Nuclear brinkmanship is the strategy of pushing a confrontation to the edge of nuclear war to force an adversary to back down.
The approach treats the credible threat of catastrophic escalation as leverage: The Cuban Missile Crisis was the Cold War's most dangerous episode of nuclear brinkmanship.
The term implies deliberate risk-taking where miscalculation could prove catastrophic.
- Cuban Missile Crisis1962 US-Soviet nuclear standoff
- chicken gameContest of nerve
- deterrencePrevention via threatened consequences
- risk toleranceAcceptable level of uncertainty
- moral hazardConsequence-free risk-taking incentive
escalation · miscalculation · game theory · coercion · Cold War · red telephone · war room · mutually assured destruction · doomsday clock · cognitive bias · existential risk · missile defense systems · credibility · rogue states · preemptive strike · superpower rivalry · arms race · crisis management
- Nuclearatomic bomb, atomic bombs, uranium, reactors, fission
nuclear brinkmanshipdétente
Easing of strained relations
appeasement · rapprochement · conciliation · conflict resolution · shuttle diplomacy
nuclear brinkmanshipnuclear disarmament
Reducing atomic weapon stockpiles
denuclearization · arms control · arms reduction · nonproliferation · nuclear freeze
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