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first-strike

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first strike
n.
A preemptive attack against an enemy, especially one using nuclear weapons against an enemy armed with nuclear weapons.

first-strike (fûrststrk) adj.

first-strike
adj
(Military) (of a nuclear missile) intended for use in an opening attack calculated to destroy the enemy's nuclear weapons


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S presidents a reliable first-strike option and continues to provide the combatant commander with stealth precision capability.
Amid the myriad computer-virus warnings, for example, was the Net rumor that the Russians would use the confusion around Y2K to launch a first-strike nuclear attack against the U.
Fear of a first-strike capability and the need to counter such a theoretical eventuality seems likely to be a dominant factor in any renewed nuclear negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States, and in the strategic planning of the two nations.
 
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