Mutual assured destruction
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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 opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender, becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction. It is based on the theory of deterrence according to which the deployment, and implicit menace of use, of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent the use by said-enemy of the same weapons against oneself. The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium in which neither side, once armed, has any rational incentive either to initiate a conflict or to disarm (presuming neither side considers self-destruction an acceptable outcome).
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| "The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy" from Foreign Af... "The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy" from Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006 www.foreignaffairs.org/.../the-rise-of-u-s-nuclear-primacy.html - Web |
| First Strike and Mutual Deterrence First Strike and Mutual Deterrence repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/552552 - Web |
| Herman Kahn's Doomsday Machine Herman Kahn's Doomsday Machine trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame2/articles/borg/kahn.html - Web |
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| Robert McNamara's "Mutual Deterrence" speech from ... Robert McNamara's "Mutual Deterrence" speech from 1967 www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Deterrence/Deterrence.shtml - Web |
| Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/.../display.cfm?pubid=585 - Web |
| Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation www.armscontrolcenter.org - Web |
| Council for a Livable World Council for a Livable World www.clw.org - Web |
| Nuclear Files.org Nuclear Files.org www.nuclearfiles.org/.../strategy-mutual-assured-destruction.htm - Web |
