Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured destruction (MAD), is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. It is based on the theory of deterrence whe...
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(from the article `Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty`) ...than a small fraction of its entire territory, and both sides were thus kept subject to the deterrent effect of the other`s strategic forces. This ... ...they are hostage to each other`s behaviour, making Europe an unsafe place to start a war. This doctrine, known as `mutual ass...
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Military doctrine that asserts that the relationship between nuclear powers remains stable if they are able to destroy each other. It reflects the theory of
deterrence: that a potential aggressor...
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a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. Also called
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