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brinkmanship

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brinkmanship
the art or practice of pressing a dangerous situation, esp in international affairs, to the limit of safety and peace in order to win an advantage from a threatening or tenacious foe


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Solving, or at least containing, the Iran problem has become all the more important since North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship has gone into overdrive with its nuclear test of October 9, 2006.
It was left to the RAND Corporation, working with Air Force contracts, to reinterpret games for the nuclear age, to connect gamesmanship to brinkmanship, board games to motherboards.
Sources, however, confirmed talks had broken off, though they said it was unclear whether the high-power firms were engaged in brinkmanship.
 
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