On military policy issues, Pakistan issues directives towards " second strike capability.
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The building of protected missile silos around the United States is a testament to this belief in second strike capability.
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Pakistan has built hard and deeply buried storage and launch facilities to retain a second strike capability in a nuclear war.
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Because both countries had second strike capability, each side knew that the use of nuclear weapons would result in their own destruction.
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The MCD theory is based on the principles of the deterrence theory and offers the idea of the achieving the second strike capability.
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According to a U . S . congressional report, Pakistan has addressed issues of survivability in a possible nuclear conflict through second strike capability.
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It underlines no first use ( NFU ) with a second strike capability, and falls under minimal deterrence as opposed to mutually assured destruction.
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Each " Dolphin "-class submarine is capable of carrying a combined total of up to 16 torpedoes and nuclear second strike capability.
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However at the time when massive retaliation became policy, there was no MAD, because the Soviet Union lacked a second strike capability throughout the 1950s.
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A successful nuclear deterrent requires that a country preserve its ability to retaliate, either by responding before its own weapons are destroyed or by ensuring a second strike capability.
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