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>Any negative effect one suffers from one's own weapons, such as the possibility that one's own weapons used in a nuclear war could create fallout that could be blown onto one's own troops or nation.
>Blowback is a term now broadly used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations. Because the public generally is unaware of secret operations, the consequences transpire as a surprise, apparently random and without cause, and blowback results.
See also
Manchurian blowback deniability Reagan Doctrine Office of Public Diplomacy Chalmers Johnson João Goulart Mohammed Mossadegh
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