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SIOP

[ sahy-op ]

noun

  1. (formerly) the secret and central U.S. contingency plan for waging a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of SIOP1

s(ingle) i(ntegrated) o(perations) p(lan)
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David Marsden, owner of Siop Newydd on Ffordd Pentraeth, has labelled them an "eyesore" and like "old jeans".

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Nia Morris owns Siop y Pentre, the village store in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, and during her 10 years it has expanded to offer Post Office services, locally sourced products and refillable supplies.

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Sion Edwards opened his farm shop, Siop Fferm Abersoch, in August, as well as an adjoining café earlier this month.

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By 1960, he had put an enduring stamp on the atomic age through the Single Integrated Operational Plan, or SIOP, SAC’s list of all the nuclear weapons in the American arsenal and their intended targets.

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Starting with Kennedy, every Cold War president was briefed, shortly after taking office, on something called the SIOP, or Single Integrated Operational Plan — the U.S. nuclear war plan for taking out the Soviet bloc and communist China, essentially by throwing the works at every city, industrial plant, military base and leadership post, including their vacation dachas.

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