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postattack blackmail
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English
Etymology
Coined by military strategist Herman Kahn.
Noun
postattack blackmail (uncountable)
- (military) The situation in which one state uses nuclear weapons to attack another state's retaliatory forces, and then threatens to attack the cities next if the weakened victim state retaliates.
References
Nuclear warfare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “postattack blackmail”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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