Beroende på vad du anser vara en "alpha-strike" måste du gå tillbaka så långt som " En riktig historia " av Lucian av Samosata i 2: a århundradet.
Månens kung och kungen av solen kämpar över rätten att kolonisera Jupiter. Konungen av månen bygger en jätte web i rymden som blockerar solens strålar, vilket gör planeten obeboelig.
As for us, we were taken off to the sun that day, our hands tied behind our backs with a section of spider-web. The enemy decided not to lay siege to the city, but on their way back they built a wall through the air, so that the rays of the sun should no longer reach the moon. The wall was double, made of cloud, so that a genuine eclipse of the moon took place, and she was completely enshrouded in unbroken night.
Att misslyckas är att begreppet planeten förstörelse (från rymden / med nukes) går tillbaka åtminstone så långt som 1951:
"This discussion is interesting, but futile," put in Eichlan, forestalling a scornful reply. "It is more to the point, I think, to discuss that which must be done; or, rather, who is to do it, since the thing itself admits of only one solution—an atomic bomb of sufficient power to destroy every trace of life upon that accursed planet.
E. E. "Doc" Smith (1951), Grå Lensman