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the initial use of nuclear weapons to attack a country that also has nuclear weapons; considered feasible only when the attacker can destroy the other country's ability to retaliate
the Pakistani president promised no first strike against India
How To Use first strike In A Sentence
- Raymond, enraged at being laughed at, charged forward and tried landing the first strike.
- Tell the people killed or injured in a first strike by an aggressor that they are protected by the moral high ground.
- Crews with First Strike Environmental arrived Tuesday evening and have been working to absorb the fuel with booms and pads.
- He can play right wing, first striker, second striker. The Sun
- The phrase sounds so innocent, but it means launching a decapitating surprise attack, a first strike against a foe in order to take out leadership targets like Moscow and military targets, especially nuclear weapons. How the End Begins
- There has always been a group among the ideologues that believed in a first strike and a winnable nuclear war.
- It may be the quick-witted humour and laughing satire that first strike visitors to this show. Times, Sunday Times
- It was a situation in which most pitchers would deliver a fastball to get the first strike.
- The first strikes usually are fast once a kicking shiner reaches a hovering gang of crappies; however, the tightly clustered fish may wise up after six or eight are jerked from the ranks. Crappie Commando
- Now as then, the sheer beauty and clarity of his piano tone is what first strikes the ear, a deep-centered, warmly rounded solidity that never permits the slightest suggestion of a forced or unmusical sound.
