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massive retaliation

 
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–noun
a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
Origin:
1950–55, Americanism
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massive retaliation

The doctrine that the best way to deter aggression is to threaten a potential aggressor with devastation by atomic bombs. (See hawks and doves.)

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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