单词 | massive retaliation |
释义 | massive retaliationnouna strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons. Origin of massive retaliationAn Americanism dating back to 1950–55 Words nearby massive retaliationMassinger, Massinisa, Massinissa, massive, massive resistance, massive retaliation, mass leave, massless, mass man, mass-market, mass marketing Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Cultural definitions for massive retaliationmassive retaliation The doctrine that the best way to deter aggression is to threaten a potential aggressor with devastation by atomic bombs (see also atomic bomb). See hawks and doves.) The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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