Dependence on nuclear arms to destroy hardened targets will decrease, they say, as the precision of conventional weapons increases.

"Useful for taking out hardened targets whose location is precisely known."

The weapon is designed to attack hardened targets.

A direct hit would presumably destroy all but the most hardened targets without the need for nuclear weapons.

This would be more useful against a larger but less hardened target (such as a city).

Thus, by thinking like a hardened target, you will become one.

Most important, of course, you will have steeled yourself as a hardened target to future manipulators.

Unless you start thinking like a hardened target, your susceptibility to coercive control will not end.

The missile, called the D-5, will be the first sea-based weapon accurate enough to destroy hardened military targets.

"These are hardened targets, and that acts as a deterrent."