...Secretary of Defense Brown of the administration pointed out that the Soviet Union had an advantage in the number of missiles and total destructive power of its nuclear forces, and said, "Any aspect of the military strength that the Soviet Union enjoys must be offset by other advantages that the United States has." In July 1980, President Carter signed Presidential Directive No. 59 (PD59), which ordered the change of nuclear attack targets, and confirmed the implementation of this "countervailing strategy." The idea of American nuclear strategy, which is consistent from Nixon's sufficiency strategy to Schlesinger's flexible response nuclear strategy and Brown's countervailing strategy, aims to have options to respond to any type of anticipated nuclear attack, from small-scale, limited nuclear attacks to large-scale, all-out nuclear war, in response to the increase in Soviet nuclear forces, and thereby strengthen nuclear deterrence. ... *Some explanations of terms that mention "countervailing strategy" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…同政権のブラウン国防長官は,ソ連の核戦力がミサイル数や破壊威力総計などで優位にあることを指摘して,〈ソ連の享受している戦力特質のどのような面も,アメリカが持つ他の有利な面で相殺することが必要だ〉と述べた。カーター大統領は1980年7月,核攻撃目標の変更を指令した大統領指令第59号(PD59)に署名し,この〈相殺戦略countervailing strategy〉の実施を確認した。 ニクソンの十分性戦略に始まり,シュレジンジャーの柔軟反応核戦略,ブラウンの相殺戦略まで一貫しているアメリカ核戦略の思想は,ソ連の核戦力の増強に対抗して,小規模・限定的な核攻撃から大規模な全面核戦争まで,予想されるいかなる態様の核攻撃に対しても対応できる選択肢を持ち,これによって核抑止を強化することを目ざしているといえよう。… ※「countervailing strategy」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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