Second strike
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In nuclear strategy, a retaliatory strike or second-strike capability is a country's assured ability to respond to a nuclear attack with powerful nuclear retaliation against the attacker. To have such
A Trident II missile launched from a Royal Navy Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarine
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USS Henry Clay polaris surface launch
Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar
Nuclear triad
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A nuclear triad is a three-pronged military force structure of global-range land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers with nuclear bo
Second strike
…nuclear retaliation even after absorbing a nuclear attack. The United States and other countries have diversified their nuclear arsenals through the nuclear triad in order to better ensure second-strike capability. Submarine-launched ballistic missiles are the traditional, but very expensive, method of providing…
Bomber aircraft
Intercontinental ballistic missile
Ballistic missile submarine
Air Mobile ICBM Feasibility Demonstration—24 October 1974