Targeting (Nuclear strategy)
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Wikidata:
Q7068206
Library of congress:
sh 86001271
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Strategic nuclear targeting, c1986(nuclear targeting; targeting)
- Ball, D. Targeting for strategic deterrence, 1983
Wikipedia description:
Nuclear utilization target selection (NUTS) is a hypothesis regarding the use of nuclear weapons often contrasted with mutually assured destruction (MAD). NUTS theory at its most basic level asserts that it is possible for a limited nuclear exchange to occur and that nuclear weapons are simply one more rung on the ladder of escalation pioneered by Herman Kahn. This leads to a number of other conclusions regarding the potential uses of and responses to nuclear weapons.
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