English Explanatory Dictionary

postattack blackmail

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The situation in which one state uses nuclear weapons to attack another state's retaliatory forces, and then threatens to attack the cities next if the weakened victim state retaliates.

Word forms

postattack blackmail

Etymology

Coined by military strategist Herman Kahn.

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