Assured Destruction Strategy

Japanese: 確証破壊戦略 - かくしょうはかいせんりゃく(英語表記)strategy of assured destruction
Assured Destruction Strategy
A nuclear strategy proposed by US Secretary of Defense R. McNamara in his February 1960 defense report. Under any circumstances, if a country had the potential to inflict fatal damage on 20-25% of the enemy's population and destroy half or two-thirds of its industrial capacity in a retaliatory strike after absorbing the enemy's first strike, no country, no matter what its war aims, could launch a preemptive first strike. This is because such great damage would render the country unable to function as a nation for the time being. A strategy that uses this potential for certain destruction to deter nuclear war is called a strategy of assured destruction. America's nuclear strategy subsequently changed to a strategy of flexible response and then to a strategy of offsetting.

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Japanese:
1960年2月の国防報告のなかで,アメリカの R.マクナマラ国防長官が提唱した核戦略。どのような状況からも,敵の第1撃を吸収したあと,報復反撃によって相手国の人口の 20~25%に致命傷を与え,工業力の2分の1ないし3分の2を破壊する潜在力をもてば,どのような国もどのような戦争目的をもっていても,先制第1撃を行いえない。というのは,このような大きな損害は,その国をして当分の間,国家としての機能を失わせるからである。このような確実な破壊の潜在力によって,核戦争を抑止する戦略を確証破壊戦略という。その後,アメリカの核戦略は柔軟反応戦略,相殺戦略へと変化した。

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