Explore: Targeting (nuclear Strategy)

Nuclear strategy involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons. As a sub-branch of military strategy

Decapitation is a military strategy aimed at removing the leadership or command and control of a hostile government or group. In nuclear warfare theory, a decapitation

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either nuclear fission (fission or atomic bomb) or

romanized: b'rerat shimshon) is Israel's deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against a country whose military

the nuclear triad While traditional nuclear strategy holds that a nuclear triad provides the best level of deterrence from attack, most nuclear powers

Nuclear utilization target selection (NUTS) is a hypothesis regarding the use of nuclear weapons often contrasted with mutually assured destruction (MAD)

In nuclear strategy, a first strike or preemptive strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force. First strike capability is an attacking

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

Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which a state uses the threat of nuclear weapons to compel or deter an adversary's action. Jeff McMahan

In nuclear strategy, countervalue is the targeting of an opponent's assets that are of value but not actually a military threat, such as cities and civilian