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First strike (Nuclear strategy).

Here are entered works on preemptive strategic nuclear attacks designed to destroy an enemy's strategic forces before they can be used against one's own strategic forces. Works on the principle that a military power, in the event of war, would not be the first to resort to the tactical or strategic use of nuclear weapons are entered under No first use (Nuclear strategy).

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• Preemptive attack (Military science)
• Targeting (Nuclear strategy)

• No first use (Nuclear strategy)
• Deterrence (Strategy)

• Footnotes to History: Selected Speeches And Writings Of Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Founder of The School of Foreign Service (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), by Edmund A. Walsh, ed. by Anna Watkins (PDF at Georgetown)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Paul C. Avey (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)
• Dynamic Stability: A New Concept for Deterrence (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1987), by Fred J. Reule, Harvey J. Crawford, Daniel S. Papp, and Grover E. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Iraq Be Deterred From Using Weapons of Mass Destruction? (Naval Postgraduate School master's thesis, 1997), by Michael T. Klemick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958), by Albert J. Wohlstetter (HTML at rand.org)
• The Requirements of Deterrence (memorandum #7; Princeton, NJ: Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1954), by William W. Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal (c1980), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009), by Albert J. Wohlstetter and Roberta Wohlstetter, ed. by Robert Zarate and Henry D. Sokolski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Deterrence by Denial and Punishment (research monograph #1; Princeton: Woodrow Wilson school of Public and International Affairs, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1959), by Glenn H. Snyder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Information Warfare and Deterrence, by Gary F. Wheatley and Richard E. Hayes (HTML at fas.org)

• Psychology and Deterrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), by Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, and Janice Gross Stein, contrib. by Patrick M. Morgan and Jack L. Snyder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Project Muse)

• Selection and Use of Strategic Air Bases (second printing, 1962), by Albert J. Wohlstetter, Fred Hoffman, R. J. Lutz, and Henry S. Rowen (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Inside the Cold War: A Cold Warrior's Reflections (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Chris Adams (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Inside the Cold War: A Cold Warrior's Reflections (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Chris Adams (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• MX Missile Basing (OTA-ISC-140; 1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Development of the B-52 and Jet Propulsion: A Case Study in Organizational Innovation (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998), by Mark David Mandeles
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust