Mutual Assured Destruction
Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike). It is based on the theory of 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 Nash equilibrium in which, once armed, neither side has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm. The …
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Mulroney Institute of Government · 5 May 2022 English
For example, Reagan’s fondness and respect for Mulroney helps to explain why, when Mulroney was trailing in the polls in the lead up to the 1988 federal election, the president …
alternative to the nuclear doctrine of mutual assured destruction by affording the country with both a …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 May 2022
was deterred by the U.S. threat of strategic nuclear retaliation under the condition of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) (i.e., deterrence by punishment). In this context, NORAD played a key role as a function …
PUL: Les Presses de l'Université Laval · 29 November 2021 French
écosystémiques MAD Destruction mutuelle assurée (Mutual Assured Destruction) MERCOSUR Marché commun du Sud MIRV …
desLibris · 22 October 2020 English
Gorbachev transformed the political climate, and with the Reykjavik Summit, the subsequent signing of the INF Treaty became a symbol of the beginning of the end of the Cold War. …
vulnerability expressed by the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). While the American literature …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 22 October 2020 English
Gorbachev transformed the political climate, and with the Reykjavik Summit, the subsequent signing of the INF Treaty became a symbol of the beginning of the end of the Cold War. …
vulnerability expressed by the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The logic of arms control is directly …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 22 October 2020 English
Gorbachev transformed the political climate, and with the Reykjavik Summit, the subsequent signing of the INF Treaty became a symbol of the beginning of the end of the Cold War. …
vulnerability expressed by the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The logic of arms control is directly …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 June 2020 English
The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide …
Betts, Brock University The dirge of our mutual-assured-destruction is sung as a hymn, staring into the …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 28 August 2018 English
The Revenge of Geography4 synthesizes the work of a number of 20th Century and earlier theorists, along with his own deep personal understanding developed over the course of a lifetime …
introduced a new dynamic in the form of Mutual Assured Destruction, which has helped to make total war a …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 28 August 2018 English
The Revenge of Geography4 synthesizes the work of a number of 20th Century and earlier theorists, along with his own deep personal understanding developed over the course of a lifetime …
introduced a new dynamic in the form of Mutual Assured Destruction, which has helped to make total war a …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 28 August 2018 English
The Revenge of Geography4 synthesizes the work of a number of 20th Century and earlier theorists, along with his own deep personal understanding developed over the course of a lifetime …
introduced a new dynamic in the form of Mutual Assured Destruction, which has helped to make total war a …
