Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons...

"Mutually Assured Destruction" is the eighth episode of the first season of the period drama television series The Americans. It originally aired on FX...

and the tension created between these two classes will cease. Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy based on rational deterrence...

submarines), called a second strike. This policy became known as Mutual Assured Destruction: both sides knew that any attack upon the other would be devastating...

material, potentially for the purpose of radiological warfare, mutual assured destruction or as doomsday devices. There is no firm evidence that such a...

"If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away." refers to mutual assured destruction. The song's mention of Selma, Alabama, refers to the Selma to...

broadcast their home planet's location to the galaxy, creating a mutual assured destruction scenario. With the Trisolaran probe thwarting such communication...

nuclear weapons and is related to but distinct from the concept of mutual assured destruction, according to which a full-scale nuclear attack on a power with...

post-Soviet Russian Federation. An example of fail-deadly and mutual assured destruction deterrence, it can automatically initiate the launch of the Russian...

defense against weapons of mass destruction in order to preserve the deterrent doctrine of mutual assured destruction (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)...

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fry'), or burnism, is a Hong Kong term referring to a concept of mutual assured destruction. The term was picked up by the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protesters...

could contemplate mutual assured destruction in a nuclear war. The nuclear deterrence of both sides threatened massive destruction on each other. Ultimately...

important part of developing stability was based on the concept of Mutual assured destruction (MAD). While the Soviets acquired atomic weapons in 1949, it took...

story: specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. The Butter Battle Book was...

allows for a nuclear strike to be launched with reduced fear of mutual assured destruction. Such a system has never been deployed, although a limited continental...

deterrent in the event of a first strike and a key element of the mutual assured destruction policy of nuclear deterrence. The deployment of ballistic missile...

Puzzle" (1983), and grew out of his work in deterrence theory and mutual assured destruction. Kavka's original version of the puzzle is the following: An eccentric...

nuclear weapons as part of nuclear strategy. The doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) assumes that a nuclear deterrent force must be credible...

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nuclear warfare. At the height of the Cold War, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), which determined that an all-out nuclear confrontation...

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criticises the then-dominant Cold War foreign policy and doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) by the United States and the then existing Soviet Union...

representation" led to a popular belief that the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) was in Canada's best interest. MAD was the Cold War doctrine...

entailed frightful implications of nuclear warfare, the Cold War, mutual assured destruction, nuclear proliferation, the risk of nuclear disaster (potentially...

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drama. However, he began to see comedy inherent in the idea of mutual assured destruction as he wrote the first draft. He later said: My idea of doing it...

was so heavily biased towards the attacker that the concept of mutual assured destruction became the leading concept in strategic planning and ABM systems...