Saddam will credibly threaten, if we do, to take out a major U.S. city in a germ attack.

But the Europeans are not good at credibly threatening force.

The deterrent logic required the ability to credibly threaten the destruction of the Soviet capital and other major cities.

But legalisms aside, it was his failure to apply pressure to our allies to credibly threaten the Serbs that permitted ethnic cleansing.

This could happen only because the government of Nelson Mandela could credibly threaten the old apartheid killers with real jail time if they did not talk.

The United States could credibly threaten them not only with the loss of power, but with dispossession.

Saddam Hussein is producing his anthrax weapon for a clear purpose: to credibly threaten us with its use.

"The Kremlin has to credibly threaten to bankrupt the company, in order to create an incentive for Khodorkovsky to negotiate."

By 1992 Mr. Bush will no longer be able to credibly threaten employing force.

If we keep our weapons, we can still credibly threaten massive retaliation if someone threatens us.