Targeting (Nuclear strategy)

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Name (Hebrew)
ביות (אסטרטגיה גרעינית)
Name (Latin)
Targeting (Nuclear strategy)
Name (Arabic)
الاستهداف (الاستراتيجية النووية)
Other forms of name
Nuclear targeting
Nuclear warfare
Targeting, Nuclear
Targeting in nuclear warfare
See Also From tracing topical name
Nuclear warfare
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

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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