graduated response

...This strategy was called the "New New Look Strategy" or "Neo New Look Strategy" as it was a revision of the New Look Strategy that was centered on strategic bombers. Graduated Response This strategy was not to immediately launch a full-scale nuclear retaliation against an invasion, but to consider appropriate use of nuclear weapons according to the degree and nature of the invasion, and it was said that having such a capability would increase the credibility of nuclear deterrence. This strategy distinguished between strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, and considered the gradual use of localized nuclear weapons by tactical nuclear weapons while maintaining strategic nuclear weapons as a retaliatory force against the Soviet Union. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "graduated response" is listed below.

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…この戦略は，戦略爆撃機を中心としたニュールック戦略を改めたものとして〈ニュー･ニュールック戦略new new look strategy〉あるいは〈ネオ･ニュールック戦略neo new look strategy〉と呼ばれた。段階的抑止graduated response侵略に対して，直ちに全面的な核報復を行うのではなく，侵略の程度や態様に対応した適切な核使用を考えようという戦略で，こうした能力を持つことが核抑止の信頼性を高めるとした。この戦略では，戦略核兵器と戦術核兵器を区別し，戦略核を対ソ報復力として保持しながら，戦術核の局地的な核使用を段階的に行うことを考えた。…

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