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massive retaliation
noun
- a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
massive retaliation
- The doctrine that the best way to deter aggression is to threaten a potential aggressor with devastation by atomic bombs (see also atomic bomb ). See hawks and doves .)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of massive retaliation1
An Americanism dating back to 1950–55
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