Such a reduction would codify the decisive Soviet superiority in land-based first-strike nuclear weapons.

They would fulfill their function as deterrents as well as ever, but no longer be as effective as first-strike weapons.

By spying on Starfleet's testing of a first-strike weapon?

We no longer have a plausible enemy against which to deploy a first-strike weapon such as a Seawolf submarine.

Marauders are shock-troops, organic first-strike weapons, meant to devastate whole planets.

Therefore, the MX must appear to the Soviet military as a first-strike weapon, whether so intended or not.

He indicated the pistol crossbow in his hand and the poison-tipped dart it held, a common first-strike weapon of the dark elves.

In addition, each side doubted the other side's commitment to not deploy first-strike weapons, or even in the event of their deployment, to not strike first.

Some first-strike weapons were deployed; however like most nuclear weapons, they were never used.

Large-scale missile defense systems are not first-strike weapons, but certain critics view them as first-strike enabling weapons.