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Originally Posted by Webstral
For what it’s worth, I refer to the entire period from 7/9/09 to the end of the main body of nuclear activity in December 1997 as the Exchange.
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I quite like the term "The Exchange" but as you've said, it's a broad period or time which could cover from the date of the first tactical nuke over in China through to the last public reported nuke (probably in 1998).
We can all agree that there were several basic phases to the exchange - the intial tactical strikes in the east, followed by tactical strikes in the west/Europe, then intercontinental strikes, followed later in 1998 by the weaker (or more accurately less prolific) strikes.
It's these general phases that the public, driven by the media, would probably have named.