Reciprocal destruction creates an equilibrium - keeping the sides from going to war. And such a scenario of mutually-assured destruction could shield the Senate from a nuclear winter. More from ...

The military doctrine called Mutually Assured (“MAD”) was a cold-war doctrine designed to prevent nuclear war between the USA and the USSR. It has worked. So far.

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I do think there's probably some kind of Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine at play that is going to lead to a detente, or rapprochement, out of necessity for both parties, maybe even as soon ...

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The mushroom cloud of the first full-scale thermonuclear device, “Ivy Mike,” is detonated in a test in the Enewetak atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1952. (Reuters) Analysis by Aaron Blake Neil ...

But for the Left to accept the threat of mutually assured destruction, they're going to have to first see the other side bare its fangs a bit. Some noses must be (proverbially) bloodied.

The inevitability of mutually assured destruction will eventually produce leaders dedicated to easing rather than stoking conflict. This is the time for building up.