First, he understands the basic nature of the nuclear stalemate - that, in his words, it makes "military superiority" something that "can't be used in real politics."

Yet the nuclear stalemate, while far more threatening, was in some ways more ordered and manageable than relations today.

June 23: "No resolution in North Korean nuclear stalemate"

Today, it is considered by many to be among the finest films dealing with the psychological effects of the global nuclear stalemate.

Mr. van den Haag rightly observes that nuclear stalemate has fended off a third great war.

The nuclear stalemate is matched by the moral stalemate.

Schell argues that the combination of asymmetrical people's war and nuclear stalemate has made traditional combat obsolete.

In the longer term, however, especially with the accumulation of thermo-nuclear weapons by both superpowers, the problem was likely to be one of nuclear stalemate.

A nuclear stalemate which the diplomats called the Cold War.

Now, the capitalists have a new weapon, one that changes the rules of nuclear stalemate.