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.

In its original, Cold War context, the term “mutually assured destruction” referred to the understanding that the United States and the Soviet Union each possessed enough nuclear weapons to ...

MAED – Mutually Assured Economic Destruction. This is a riff on the Cold War’s MAD – Mutually-Assured Destruction – doctrine that kept U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons on a hair-trigger ...

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Experts once thought mutually assured destruction would prevent nuclear war. Now they're not so sure Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine seem to risk nuclear war — and that breaks an important ...

Mutual assured destruction It has been another bad year for Britain’s not-for-profit banks. Dec 21st 2013. Share “BUILDING societies again are now firmly established in all great centres of ...

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 ...

Sen. Mike Rounds, (R-SD), offers the congressional keynote address at the CyberCon 2015 Conference at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. The U.S. sees ...

The fight over the debt ceiling has been over for about a month now, but the implications of the surreal tragedy continue to linger. We know about some of the consequences we can clearly identify ...