An attack with nuclear weapons designed to destroy the enemy's nuclear weapons before use.
（旨在在敌人使用核武器前就摧毁其核武器的）第一次核打击
a pre-emptive first strike
as modifiera first-strike weapon
Example sentencesExamples
Useful only in a first-strike scenario, communications from the transmitter would alert submarines to begin operations, leading to a potential launch of their nuclear weapons.
It was seen as a first-strike weapon and a very destabilizing presence in the bilateral relationship.
We've already got more than enough for deterrence and a first-strike ability.
It doesn't casually threaten first-strike use of nuclear weapons.
These are advanced first-strike aircraft that can evade radar, which the military plans to fund to the tune of $200 billion over the next 25 years.
At the same time, Denmark is a full member of Nato, a nuclear alliance based on the nuclear first-strike principle.
Ministers and Defence chiefs are understood to be in advanced negotiations over developing a new range of much smaller and cheaper nuclear weapons that could be used to launch first-strike attacks on enemies.
This made it both a first-strike weapon, capable of decimating entire regions, thus incapacitating the enemy, or making it a retaliatory weapon, capable of exacting revenge.
We believe it will be used in a first-strike capacity.
If other elements are factored into the polling - should we wait for allied support, should we give the U.N. more time for diplomacy, for example - a majority of us oppose a first-strike approach.
Definition of first strike in US English:
first strike
nounfərst straɪk
An attack with nuclear weapons designed to destroy the enemy's nuclear weapons before their use.
（旨在在敌人使用核武器前就摧毁其核武器的）第一次核打击
a preemptive first strike
as modifiera first-strike weapon
Example sentencesExamples
This made it both a first-strike weapon, capable of decimating entire regions, thus incapacitating the enemy, or making it a retaliatory weapon, capable of exacting revenge.
If other elements are factored into the polling - should we wait for allied support, should we give the U.N. more time for diplomacy, for example - a majority of us oppose a first-strike approach.
It was seen as a first-strike weapon and a very destabilizing presence in the bilateral relationship.
We believe it will be used in a first-strike capacity.
At the same time, Denmark is a full member of Nato, a nuclear alliance based on the nuclear first-strike principle.
These are advanced first-strike aircraft that can evade radar, which the military plans to fund to the tune of $200 billion over the next 25 years.
Useful only in a first-strike scenario, communications from the transmitter would alert submarines to begin operations, leading to a potential launch of their nuclear weapons.
Ministers and Defence chiefs are understood to be in advanced negotiations over developing a new range of much smaller and cheaper nuclear weapons that could be used to launch first-strike attacks on enemies.
It doesn't casually threaten first-strike use of nuclear weapons.
We've already got more than enough for deterrence and a first-strike ability.