单词 | controlled response |
释义 | > as lemmascontrolled response controlled response n. Military response to an attack with military action which is deliberately kept within certain limits in order to avoid all-out nuclear war. ΚΠ 1961 Abilene (Texas) Reporter 24 Mar. 7/1 The dispatch said the Joint Chiefs of Staff were given until April 17 ‘to prepare a doctrine which, if accepted, would permit controlled response and negotiating pauses in the event of a thermo-nuclear attack’. 1965 H. Kahn On Escalation viii. 163 The slower rate of escalation..that is likely to result from a successful controlled-response strategy. 1984 D. P. Lackey Moral Princ. & Nucl. Weapons 115 Flexible or Controlled Response became declared policy in 1962. 2004 N. Brown Global Instability & Strategic Crisis iv. xii. 210 Controlled response would run the risk of higher initial casualties. < as lemmas |
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