Sentence examples for massive retaliation from inspiring English sources
noun
A military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force when attacked.
Massive retaliation was widely criticized.
Massive retaliation works.
This "massive retaliation" doctrine, was, however, too psychotic to enforce, and was discredited.
Massive retaliation was also criticized for failing to appreciate possible areas of Soviet superiority.
The Soviets threatened to launch "weapons of destruction"; the Americans promised "massive retaliation".
Israel held back from massive retaliation after Yasser Arafat committed his forces to an unconditional ceasefire.
They have so tied themselves to massive retaliation rhetoric that they had to do something".
Nato develops the doctrine of "massive retaliation", a nuclear response to Soviet attack.
But the analysts at rand considered massive retaliation a pathetically crude idea, an atomic-age version of Roosevelt's big stick.
The doctrine of massive retaliation was a deterrent — a way to prevent war — but it was inherently destabilizing.
Iranian leaders angrily denounced the report as a pretext for a military attack, and warned of a massive retaliation.
