Mutually Assured Destruction

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
MAD
Pronunciation
/mˈjuʧuəli əˈʃʊrd dɪˈstrəkʃən/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
US Government

Examples in Context

  1. We built one, too. mad : mutually assured destruction.
  2. This is particularly worrying because the logic of mutually assured destruction that kept fingers off nuclear buttons during the cold war does not apply to terrorist groups.
  3. So great are the risks that the nuclear doctrine of mutually assured destruction is already being mentioned as a template for an international understanding, prompting admiral Owens to recommend an agreement on " no first use of cyber-attack ".
  4. And so the Mutually Assured Destruction(MAD) policy of the Cold War
  5. First, due to the reasons for the land and population, Israel vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction; Israeli nuclear second strike capability is still relatively weak and can not be mutually assured destruction.

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