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the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises.

not only may it be that but it is as well a policy in the 1950's that called for threatening all-out war in order to confront Communist aggression.

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Brinkmanship caused a lot of controversy during the Cold War. It also got the United States and Soviet Union very close to nuclear war.

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