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Overkill (term)
Overkill is the use of excessive force or action that goes further than what is necessary to achieve its goal. It implies that, while the goal was accomplished, there was collateral damage as a result. It may be a literal term referring to physical damage, though it is also used in colloquial conversation as a metaphor. An example is killing an ant with a sledgehammer.
==Nuclear weapons==
''Overkill'' is especially used to refer to a destructive nuclear capacity exceeding the amount needed to destroy an enemy.〔.〕
The term is attested from 1946〔"overkill." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 31 Mar. 2009. .〕 and was in common use during the Cold War era, referring to the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both nations possessed (US and Russia still possess) more than enough nuclear weapons to destroy one another many times over — nuclear overkill.
The term for this was "pounding the rubble" or, as military officers sometimes joked, "pounding the ruble".
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