Mutual assured destruction
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title:
Mutual assured destruction
text:
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. It is based on the theory of rational deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. The strategy is a form of
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Doctrine of military strategy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
date created:
2002-01-25T08:36:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T18:09:50Z
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