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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...

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

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...

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

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

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

survivable 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...

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

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

'embrace 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...

the United States (launch on warning), specified in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction. Shortly after midnight, the bunker's computers reported...

List of military disasters Moral victory – Loss with some moral gain Mutual assured destruction – Doctrine of military strategy Parthian shot – Expert mounted...

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

among four characters in the climactic scene. Catch-22 (logic) Deadlock Mutual assured destruction Pareto efficiency/Pareto optimality Polish parliament (expression)...

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

announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, a critic of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a "suicide pact". Reagan called...

escalation of threats of nuclear war, if carried out, were likely to lead to mutual assured destruction (MAD). The pioneering game theorist Thomas Schelling defined...

"hawk–dove" are identical. The game has also been used to describe the mutual assured destruction of nuclear warfare, especially the sort of brinkmanship...

Response: The last phase or stage more or less corresponded to the mutual assured destruction scenario. The total nuclear attack on the communist world...