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Definition of First strike
1. Noun. The initial use of nuclear weapons to attack a country that also has nuclear weapons; considered feasible only when the attacker can destroy the other country's ability to retaliate. "The Pakistani president promised no first strike against India"
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Strike
Literary usage of First strike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"The first strike was entirely natural in its origin, the result of self-existing and
... The first strike worked itself out among frontier conditions, ..."
2. The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse: In A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild by Hans Staden, Albert Tootal, Richard Francis Burton (1874)
"The others, however, first strike their dead before they cut them up to be eaten.
CAPUT IV. What the dwellings of the Tuppin Imba savages, whose prisoner I ..."
3. America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with an by Nathan Haskell. Dole (1922)
"THE first strike DURING the month of March, 1911, Gibson grappled with the question
of securing ships to freight coal to Norway. ..."
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