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Countervalue: Counterforce, Nuclear warfare, Assured destruction, No first use, Fourth Geneva Convention, Protocol I, Collateral damage, First strike
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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "In nuclear
warfare, enemy targets can be divided into two general types;
counterforce military targets and countervalue civilian targets. The
rationale behind countervalue targeting is that when two sides have both
achieved assured destruction capability-that is, that the nuclear
arsenals of each side have the apparent ability to survive a wide range
of counterforce attacks, and counterattack-then, in an all-out nuclear
war, the value of targeting the opponent's nuclear arsenal diminishes,
and the value of targeting the opponent's cities and civilians
increases. This line of reasoning, however, assumes that the opponent
values its civilians over its military forces." |
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