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Massive retaliation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Massive retaliation , also known as a massive response or massive deterrence , is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in th...
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Clinton vows 'massive' U.S. retaliation if Iran attacks Israel-News and commentary relating to events in Israel, the occupied territories, and the world, along with an archive of past issues ... 9. Massive retaliation...
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Massive retaliation was rolled back almost as soon as it was announced. The Eisenhower administration soon realized that an all-or-nothing approach to nuclear deterrence and nuclear war-fighting wasn’t very helpful, and that nuclear weapons were a poor substitute for conventional military capabilities.
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Learn what happened on This Day in History at History.com. ... Although Dulles did not directly refer to nuclear weapons, it was clear that the new policy he was describing would depend upon the "massive retaliatory power" of such weapons to respond to future communist acts of war.
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IMDb > Massive Retaliation (1984) ... Massive Retaliation (1984) More at IMDbPro » ... With subject matter as serious as this, MASSIVE RETALIATION should be a rough punch in the gut...sadly, it just tickles your ass with a feather. 3.5/10 - not recommended.
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The political climate of the Cold war became more defined in January, 1954, when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced the policy that came to be known as "massive retaliation" -- any major Soviet attack would be met with a massive nuclear response.
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Obama isn't the underdog anymore, and Charlie Gibson isn't rolling over for him a la SNL. Gibson and Stephanopoulos have, on behalf of their colleagues, responded to the ridicule with, as Hillary might say, massive retaliation.
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