Massive retaliation

Japanese: massive retaliation(英語表記)massiveretaliation
Massive retaliation

…Secretary of State Dulles declared in January 1954 that the basis of American strategy would be massive retaliation. This strategy was called the "massive retaliation strategy" and became the prototype for the American nuclear deterrence strategy thereafter (see table, table (continued)). In the latter half of the 1950s, the Soviet Union deployed bombers capable of direct bombing of the US mainland, and further succeeded in testing intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Furthermore, in October 1957, the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched, ushering in the age of nuclear missiles. …

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Japanese:

…ダレス国務長官は54年1月,アメリカの戦略の基本を大量報復におくと宣言した。この戦略は〈大量報復戦略massive retaliation strategy〉と呼ばれ,その後のアメリカの核抑止戦略の原型となった(表,表(つづき)参照)。 1950年代後半になると,ソ連はアメリカ本土を直接爆撃可能な爆撃機を配備し,さらに中距離弾道ミサイル(IRBM)や大陸間弾道ミサイル(ICBM)の実験に成功,さらに57年10月には世界初の人工衛星スプートニク1号を打ち上げ,核ミサイル時代に入った。…

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