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massive retaliation
noun
- a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
massive retaliation
- The doctrine that the best way to deter aggression is to threaten a potential aggressor with devastation by atomic bombs (see also atomic bomb ). See hawks and doves .)
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Example Sentences
After Iran’s massive retaliation for the Israeli strike against Iran’s diplomatic compound in Damascus, it now falls to President Joe Biden to prevent subsequent rounds of escalation from blinding the entire Middle East, or even the world.
The 7 October attacks triggered Israel's massive retaliation on Hamas in Gaza - air strikes and shelling that have killed more than 26,000 Palestinians, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
The group is said to be wary about triggering a massive retaliation inside Lebanon, one that would be harshly criticized by the country’s other political factions.
Hamas presumably knew its terrorist onslaught would provoke massive retaliation.
Since Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel sparked a massive retaliation in Gaza, Egypt’s leadership has frantically tried to negotiate the entry of humanitarian aid through its crossing into the Palestinian territory — partially in hopes of averting an exodus into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
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