1. Conflict resolution strategy by which one persists in their behavior despite receiving one retaliatory response, under the presumption that a second retaliatory response will not be given.
2. Continuing to talk shit after getting hit, because you're too stupid to realize you'll just get hit again.
First employed (unsuccessfully) by the Empire of Japan in
late 1945 following the August 6 atomic bombing of
Hiroshima and prior to the bombing of
Nagasaki on August 9.
Friend: "Wait, so that
drunk guy kept trying to fight the
cops after getting tazed?"
Me: "Yep. He went with the
Nagasaki Approach. Figured they wouldn't just taze him again."
Friend: "Fucking idiot."