0 a wire stretched low above the ground that operates an explosive device, a gun, or a device for catching animals when it is touched by the foot of a person or animal --
The forces are still increasing the level of their stores to meet the revised strategy of flexible response which replaced tripwire.
Those of us who have had to sum up in these cases know the tripwires that can befall a judge.
That brings us back to the days of the tripwire theory, with all that that entails.
But now we have to deal with one tripwire after another.
They are activated indiscriminately by a tripwire mechanism and are similar to mines.
If the "trip-wire"strategy is the correct one, how thick is the"tripwire"?
There are no tripwires or traps in the resolution; it sets out a very clear procedure.
In the sixties we were able to rely on the tripwire strategy of a superior nuclear deterrent.
