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Nuclear utilization target selection (NUTS) was a strategy developed during the Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
 as a means for one world nuclear power to achieve victory against another world nuclear power.

To be victorious, the attacker had to destroy the target country's nuclear arsenal in a massive first strike
First strike

In nuclear strategy, a first strike is a Preemptive war employing overwhelming force. First strike capability is a country's ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation while the opposing side is left unable to continue war....
. The ability to do so would then have given the attacker superiority in the nuclear arms race
Nuclear arms race

The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War....
 and relieve them from the threat of mutual assured destruction (MAD)
Mutual assured destruction

Mutually assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender....
.

The strategy was first mentioned in the 1970s when the technology involving inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) allowed a nuclear payload to be delivered with exceptional accuracy to any location on the planet.

However, because nuclear missiles could be launched from submarine
Submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability....
s (SLBMs) or mobile installations (the Soviet SS-20s), the idea of targeting fixed installations that the NUTS theory entails would not have been successful.






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Nuclear utilization target selection (NUTS) was a strategy developed during the Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
 as a means for one world nuclear power to achieve victory against another world nuclear power.

To be victorious, the attacker had to destroy the target country's nuclear arsenal in a massive first strike
First strike

In nuclear strategy, a first strike is a Preemptive war employing overwhelming force. First strike capability is a country's ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation while the opposing side is left unable to continue war....
. The ability to do so would then have given the attacker superiority in the nuclear arms race
Nuclear arms race

The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War....
 and relieve them from the threat of mutual assured destruction (MAD)
Mutual assured destruction

Mutually assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender....
.

The strategy was first mentioned in the 1970s when the technology involving inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) allowed a nuclear payload to be delivered with exceptional accuracy to any location on the planet.

However, because nuclear missiles could be launched from submarine
Submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability....
s (SLBMs) or mobile installations (the Soviet SS-20s), the idea of targeting fixed installations that the NUTS theory entails would not have been successful. Additionally, early warning systems would make it especially difficult to guarantee that an attacker would actually be able to achieve first strike capability.

See also

  • Nuclear strategy
    Nuclear strategy

    Nuclear strategy involves the development of military doctrines and strategy for the production and use of nuclear weapons.As a sub-branch of military strategy, nuclear strategy attempts to match nuclear weapons as means to political ends....
  • Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP)
    Single Integrated Operational Plan

    The Single Integrated Operational Plan is a blueprint which specifies how United States nuclear weapons would be used in the event of Nuclear warfare....
  • Nuclear warfare
    Nuclear warfare

    Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare refers to the strategy for fighting or deterring military conflicts and terrorism when nuclear weapons are present....


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