In nuclear strategy, a counterforce target is one that has a military value, such as a launch silo for intercontinental ballistic missiles, an airbase...

styling itself as the "Counterforce" in resistance to the emerging post-war military-industrial complex. Part Four: The Counterforce: Elements in this section...

like cities and ports, and the system had little or no capability as a counterforce weapon. The Air Force relied on its crewed bombers as the primary weapon...

regarding the potential uses of and responses to nuclear weapons. A counterforce strike consists of an attack on enemy nuclear weapons meant to destroy...

actually a military threat, such as cities and civilian populations. Counterforce is the targeting of an opponent's military forces and facilities. The...

retaliatory strike. In other words, minimal deterrence requires rejecting a counterforce strategy in favor of pursuing survivable force that can be used in a...

Administration Rogério Lobato to use disaffected Falintil veterans as a counterforce to the Gusmão loyalists in the army. The December 4, 2002, Dili riots...

and control sites, and storage depots first. The strategy is called counterforce. First-strike attack, the use of a nuclear first strike capability, was...

the Minuteman program, which, by 1961, was firmly evolving towards a counterforce capability.: 197  Minuteman's final tests coincided with the start of...

Secretary of Defense, James Schlesinger. It outlined a broad selection of counterforce options against a wide variety of potential enemy actions, a major change...

nuclear retaliation. It is essentially a subset of a counterforce strike but whereas a counterforce strike seeks to destroy weapons directly, a decapitation...

including enemy airfields, radars, and surface-to-air defenses, not only counterforce strikes on hardened or wide area bomber, submarine, and missile bases...

strikes; these targets consisted primarily of industrial sites but included counterforce targets. These plans, primarily by the Air Force, tended to be based...

Lucio Fulci's 1983 fantasy film Conquest and the all-star action film Counterforce in 1988. In 1996, Rivero acted in the film Werewolf with Richard Lynch...

Vigilante (1983), Walking the Edge (1985), The Delta Force (1986), and Counterforce (1988). He wrote, starred in, produced and directed Hollywood Harry (1985)...

1970s-vintage UGM-73 Poseidon, were considered too inaccurate for a counterforce or first-strike attack, an attack against an opponent's weapons. SLBMs...

tactical attacks and would probably strike countervalue rather than counterforce targets. The combination of China's few nuclear weapons and technological...

Nuclear War plan from the 'city killing' countervalue strike plan to a "counterforce" plan (targeted more at military forces). Nuclear weapons at this time...

attacker fewer warheads to use on other targets. Moreover, the results of a counterforce attack would be much less predictable, making such an attack less valuable...

was needed to attack hardened military targets and to provide a safe counterforce option because the bombers could be quickly launched into safe loitering...

to nihilism through appreciation of art: Art as the single superior counterforce against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist...

submerged dorsal sail would have provided a strong centreboard-like counterforce for powerful sidewards movements of the strong neck and long tail, as...

of orthoses prescribed for this problem: counterforce elbow orthoses and wrist extension orthoses. Counterforce orthosis has a circumferential structure...

generally considered suitable for a first strike (inherently counterforce) or a counterforce second strike, due to: Their high accuracy (low circular error...

countervalue targeting, or airfields, radar systems and mobile ICBMs in counterforce targeting. Killer Junior and Killer Senior are techniques of employing...

[further explanation needed] McNamara's alternative in the doctrine of counterforce was to try to limit the United States nuclear exchange by targeting only...

Renegade Force (aka Counterforce and Rogue Force) is a 1998 action film, starring Michael Rooker, Robert Patrick, Diane DiLascio and Louis Mandylor. The...

Moreover, the Soviet Union could not afford to build any reasonable counterforce, as the economic output of the United States was far larger than that...

Later-generation missiles with much improved accuracy made second-strike counterforce attacks against the opponent's hardened military facilities possible...

June 2011. "50 Years of Bridging the Gap", History, DARPA, April 2008 "Counterforce issues for the US strategic nuclear forces" (PDF). CBO. 1978. Forden...