Full Idea
With nuclear weapons, supreme emergency has become a permanent condition. …[283] But supreme emergency is never a stable position.
Gist of Idea
With nuclear weapons we have a permanent supreme emergency (which is unstable)
Source
Michael Walzer (Just and Unjust Wars [1977], 17)
Book Reference
Walzer,Michael: 'Just and Unjust Wars' [Penguin 1984], p.274
A Reaction
The obvious instability of balanced mutual threat is a nuclear state which finds itself losing a war.