Nuclear strategy involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons. As a sub-branch of military strategy...

In nuclear strategy, a first strike or preemptive strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force. First strike capability is a country's...

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...

possess a nuclear triad, but its status is not confirmed. The components of the nuclear triad While traditional nuclear strategy holds that a nuclear triad...

known as the nuclear–extranuclear strategy. Mally introduced the dual property strategy, but did not endorse it. The dual property strategy was eventually...

romanized: b'rerat shimshon) is Israel's deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against a country whose military...

doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender...

In nuclear strategy, a retaliatory strike or second-strike capability is a country's assured ability to respond to a nuclear attack with powerful nuclear...

topic gained increased prominence as a military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons and is related to but distinct from...

inbound missiles had been detected, the Soviet Union's strategy was an immediate and compulsory nuclear counter-attack against the United States (launch on...

years long Foreign service career, Sattar authored foreign policy and nuclear strategy related articles in Pakistan Observer. In 1993–94, Sattar took up the...

Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which one of states uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some...

Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are...

foreign policy, labor relations, contemporary military strategy (by involving the threat of nuclear weapons), terrorism, and high-stakes litigation. The...

stricter about when the U.S. would order a nuclear strike. Nuclear strategy Nuclear Posture Review Nuclear weapons of the United States Jorge E. Hirsch...

analysts agree that Russia's nuclear strategy under Putin eventually brought it into violation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (although...

if every nuclear-command center and all leadership were destroyed. Colonel General Andrian Danilevich, Assistant for Doctrine and Strategy to the Chief...

The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is a process “to determine what the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. security strategy should be.” NPRs are the primary...

speculated that Putin was using the madman strategy, after his decision to place Russian deterrence nuclear forces on "special alert". Taylor stated that...

Fail-deadly is a concept in nuclear military strategy that encourages deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic, and overwhelming response to...

China is one of mutual assured destruction (MAD). CARVER matrix Nuclear strategy Nuclear warfare Ryszard Kukliński Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP)...

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fire on warning, is a strategy of nuclear weapon retaliation where a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of enemy nuclear attack and while its...

basics of nuclear strategy. Known as "the American Clausewitz," and "the original nuclear strategist," he was an initial architect of nuclear deterrence...

implementing a launch on warning strategy in a shift away from a strict no-first-use policy. China normally stores nuclear warheads separately from their...

to possess nuclear weapons. The Samson Option refers to Israel's ability to use nuclear weapons against attackers as a deterrence strategy in the face...

assured destruction strategy, which relied on massive nuclear attacks against an enemy's urban-industrial areas. Credible strategic nuclear deterrence, the...

massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force...

"Samson Option" of the book's title refers to the nuclear strategy whereby Israel would launch a massive nuclear retaliatory strike if the state itself was being...

In nuclear strategy, countervalue is the targeting of an opponent's assets that are of value but not actually a military threat, such as cities and civilian...