postattack blackmail

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|military}} The situation in which one [[state]] uses [[nuclear weapon]]s to [[attack]] another state's [[retaliatory]] [[force]]s, and then threatens to attack the [[city|cities]] next if the weakened [[victim]] state retaliates.

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