| 释义 |
ˈescaˌlatory, a.
[f. escalate v. + -ory2.]
Tending to escalate or increase by successive stages, esp. of the development of nuclear weapons; characteristic of or conducive to escalation.
1965H. Kahn On Escalation xii. 230 A situation is made largely escalatory or de-escalatory by the net balance of these elements. 1968N.Y. Times 13 Mar. 46 These escalatory measures may be necessary, it is argued, in order to strengthen our increasingly difficult position in South Vietnam. 1980Sci. Amer. Apr. 42/2 NATO's chemical weapons would add little to the deterrence of chemical warfare unless the retaliation threatened were highly escalatory. 1983Times 8 Jan. 7/6 What factor, other than any proposed by CND, has a good chance of changing the escalatory effect of Russian/American insistence that new weaponry is justified because it will enable the possessor to negotiate reduction from strength? |