nuclear strategy
Warhead deployment planning
Nuclear strategy encompasses the policies, doctrines, and plans governing the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons.
It includes concepts like deterrence, first strike, second strike capability, and mutually assured destruction.
During the Cold War, nuclear strategy dominated military thinking: The doctrine of massive retaliation gave way to flexible response.
Strategic debates continue over issues like nuclear posture, arms control, and proliferation.
- arms raceEscalating weapons accumulation between nations
- missile gapAlleged shortfall in warheads
- atomic ageEra of harnessed fission
- cold warHostility without open fighting
- deterrencePrevention via threatened consequences
hydrogen bomb · Manhattan Project · ballistic missiles · atomic weapon · mutually assured destruction · ICBM · Hiroshima · uranium enrichment · Nagasaki · first strike · second strike · massive retaliation · brinkmanship · fail safe · counterforce · missile defense · missile silos · radiation effects
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- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
nuclear strategyconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
traditional warfare · guerrilla warfare · asymmetric warfare · cyber warfare · naval strategy
nuclear strategydisarmament
Reducing or eliminating weapons
nuclear disarmament · diplomacy · peaceful resolution · denuclearization · arms reduction
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Government emergency civilian protection
defensive strategy · passive defense · non-intervention · demilitarization
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