单词 | first strike |
释义 | > as lemmasfirst strike first strike n. and adj. (a) n. a first aggressive attack with nuclear weapons; (b) adj. of or relating to such an attack; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > first nuclear attack first strike1956 1956 Bull. Atomic Sci. Apr. 102/1 How many carriers and nuclear weapons of the West will be destroyed by the first strike? 1960 New Left Rev. July 2/1 First-strike nuclear weapons. 1962 Listener 5 Apr. 605/2 A Russian first strike. 1969 Daily Tel. 17 Nov. 14 The most sinister aspect of Russia's nuclear expansion is her concentration on a variety of giant ‘first-strike’ weapons, designed to knock out American launchers and control centres. 2006 A. Goodman Intuition ii. iv. 73 We're going to lose our first-strike advantage... We'll have to share credit with copycats at Stanford. 2006 Foreign Affairs Mar. 44 The ability to destroy all of an adversary's nuclear forces, eliminating the possibility of a retaliatory strike, is known as a first-strike capability, or nuclear primacy. < as lemmas |
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