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mutual assured destruction: see nuclear strategy nuclear strategy, a policy for the use of nuclear weapons. The first atomic bombs were used in the context of the Allies' World War II policy of strategic bombing. Early in the cold war, U.S.
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mutual assured destruction (redirected from nuclear deterrence)

mutual assured destruction
(redirected from nuclear deterrence)