Editing First strike (nuclear strategy) (section)

==Terms used==
*CEP – [[circular error probable]]; the radius within which a weapon aimed at a given point will land with a 50% confidence; for example, a CEP of 150 m indicates that 50% of the time, the weapon will impact within 150 m of the target. This measure of accuracy assumes that everything up to the point of impact works correctly.
*Range – the maximum distance from a target a weapon can be fired to successfully hit the point where it is targeted at. (When range is used without qualifiers, like maximum or minimum, it is assumed that it refers to maximum; however, many of these described weapons have minimum ranges as well, though they are not mentioned, or, in all likelihood, even known to the public.)
*kt/Mt – This is an approximate measure of how much energy is released by the [[detonation]] of a nuclear weapon; kt stands for [[kilotons]] [[Trinitrotoluene|TNT]], Mt stands for [[TNT equivalent|megatons]] TNT. Conventional science of the period contemporary to the [[Manhattan project]] came up with these measures so as to reasonably analogize the incredible energy of a nuclear detonation in a form that would be understandable to the military, politicians, or civilians. [[Trinitrotoluene]] (TNT) was and is a [[high explosive]] with industrial and military uses, and is around 40% more powerfully explosive than an equivalent weight of [[gunpowder]]. A ton is equivalent to 1000&nbsp;kg or approximately 2200 pounds. A 20 kt nuclear device, therefore, liberates as much [[energy]] as does the [[explosion]] of 20,000 tons of TNT (this is the origin of the term, for the exact definition see [[TNT equivalent]]). This is a large quantity of energy. In addition, unlike TNT, the detonation of a nuclear device also emits [[ionizing radiation]] that can harm living organisms, including humans; the prompt radiation from the blast itself and the [[fallout]] can persist for a long period of time, though within hours to weeks, the radiation from a single nuclear detonation will drop enough to permit humans to remain at the site of the blast indefinitely without incurring acute fatal [[Ionizing radiation|exposure]] to radiation.