0 the characteristic of becoming very angry very easily
Those bombers were the very stuff of hair-trigger response.
Indeed, for many years, people have been trying to find ways of moving away from those hair-trigger dangers.
We also want a system that does not depend on hair-trigger decisions in a crisis.
Physical separation obviously increases reaction times and induces confidence that nuclear arsenals are not on hair-trigger alert.
That is the hair-trigger posture, which, as anyone who knows anything about strategic nuclear matters is aware, is inherently dangerous because it heightens the risk of accidental nuclear war.
Defense was inevitably more stabilizing than relying on hair-trigger offense, we argued.
He has a hair-trigger temper, and as such can cause a lot of trouble without thinking about it.
Fishburne, with his hair-trigger line readings and deadly reptilian gaze, conveys the controlled desperation of someone watching his own faith unravel.