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

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

First strike most commonly refers to: First strike (nuclear strategy) Preemptive war First strike may also refer to: First Strike (1979 film), a United...

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...

Europe. An ideological hardliner, he was a defender of the first strike nuclear strategy, and only reluctantly supported Leonid Brezhnev's détente with...

with nuclear bombs and missiles. Countries build nuclear triads to eliminate an enemy's ability to destroy a nation's nuclear forces in a first-strike attack...

located in Moscow; Washington, DC; and other cities. First strike (nuclear strategy) Second strike Counterforce Mutually Assured Destruction Deterrence...

refrains from the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in warfare, except for as a second strike in retaliation to an attack...

three missiles from Israeli aircraft had struck Iran. No strikes were reported on Iran's nuclear sites. According to a senior US official speaking to ABC...