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Nuclear strategy Main articles: Nuclear strategy and Deterrence theory See also: Pre-emptive nuclear strike, Nuclear peace, Essentials of Post—Cold War Deterrence, Single Integratec and On Thermonuclear War Nuclear warfare strategy is a set of policies that deal with preventing or fighting a nuclear war. The policy of trying to weapon from another country by threatening nuclear retaliation is known as the strategy of nuclear deterrence. The maintain a second strike capability (the ability of a country to respond to a nuclear attack with one of its own) and po (the ability to destroy an enemy's nuclear forces before they could retaliate). During the Cold War, policy and military policies that might prevent a nuclear attack, and they developed game theory models that could lead to stable deten Different forms of nuclear weapons delivery (see above) allow for different types of nuclear strategies. The goals of any strategy are generally to make it difficult for an enemy to launch a pre-emptive strike against the weapon system and difficult to defend against the delivery of the weapon during a potential conflict. This can mean keeping weapon locations hidden, such as deploying them on submarines or land mobile transporter erector launchers whose locations are difficult to track, or it can mean protecting weapons by burying them in hardened missile silo bunkers. Other components of nuclear strategies included using missile defenses to destroy the missiles before they land, or implementing civil defense measures using early-warning systems to evacuate citizens to safe areas before an attack. Weapons designed to threaten large populations or to deter attacks are known as strategic weapons. Nuclear weapons for use on a battlefield in military situations are called tactical weapons. Critics of nuclear war strategy often suggest that a nuclear war between two nations would result in mutual annihilation. From this point of view, the significance of nuclear weapons is to deter war because any nuclear war would escalate out of mutual distrust and fear, resulting in mutually assured destruction. This threat of national, if not global, destruction has been a strong motivation for anti-nuclear weapons activism. Critics from the peace movement and within the military establishment[®/@07 needed] haye questioned the usefulness of such weapons in the current military climate. According to an advisory opinion issued by the el A o 8 PVacoch B el 2 AAAN LA e e B e AR b L e B\ meab saicehn s ecemel Al e e s b L