Patent stockpiles like Cold War-era nuclear arms engender a relatively tranquil state of mutually assured destruction.
This disturbing comment offers clear demonstration that Iran may be insusceptible to mutually assured destruction.
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Advocates of Mutual Assured Destruction insisted on leaving civilian populations totally vulnerable to nuclear attack.
Mutual assured destruction has no relevance with regard to North Korea, Iraq or Iran.
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Honing them may help avoid the mutually-assured destruction associated with exercising a nuclear option.
Game theory underlay the principle of mutually assured destruction developed by American strategists during the cold war.
Under the aegis of such an attitude, mutual assured destruction would turn into a very weak read indeed.
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The US and Russia have, thanks to mutually assured destruction, never engaged in a shooting war with each other.
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Politically, we should take care not to perpetuate as official policy the concept of mutual assured destruction with Russia.
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The current impasse and lockout is a sure path to mutually assured destruction.
Game theory was the basis of the principle of mutually assured destruction developed by American strategists during the cold war.
Because of these characteristics, Iran may not be swayed by the two concepts.discussed previously: mutually assured destruction and the nuclear taboo.
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And as a result, Iran will respond as the Soviet Union did to a deterrent model based on mutually assured destruction.
In an era when MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) was the acronym the world over, Lees toys with the madness under the political gloss to brilliant effect.
The thought of mutually assured destruction actually kept the peace.
It was a major factor in our decision in 1972, at the time the ABM Treaty was signed, to rely on Mutual Assured Destruction rather than active terminal defense.
In the Cold War the nuclear-missile standoff between the U.S. and USSR led to gargantuan stockpiles of another sort under a security doctrine known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
Before September 11, we were living with an unrealistic view of our world, much like observing Europe appease Hitler or trying to accommodate the Soviet Union through the use of mutually assured destruction.
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We have recognized that the hostility that characterized US and Soviet relations during the Cold War has ended, hostility that was enshrined in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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Arsenal opted for the latter and it says something for the insanity of soccer that so many criticize the club for acting in a fiscally responsible manner and not choosing instead a path of assured destruction.
By making a virtue of our vulnerability, the ABM Treaty only reinforces the discredited policy of mutual assured destruction at a time when the U.S. is being targeted by numerous potentially undeterrable rogue states and terrorists.
Kyl, a recipient of the Center for Security Policy's Keeper of the Flame award, decried the policy of Mutual Assured Destruction that has both helped contribute to the United States' absolute vulnerability to ballistic missile attack -- and prolonged that of its allies.
The bipolar international structure of the Cold War is often warmly remembered as a time when the balance of power - aided by the commonly understood inevitability of mutual assured destruction - ensured a relatively peaceful world where a war between the superpowers was largely unfeasible.
The key point Bush made was that it is time to put aside the doctrine of mutually assured destruction that was the bedrock of security during the Cold War when it was basically a bipolar world, with the United States and the Soviet Union on opposite sides.
Despite being intractable foes both had a common interest in avoiding Mutually Assured Destruction, something that came perilously close when the Soviets installed missiles in Cuba and grade school kids like me practiced hiding under desks to increase the odds of surviving the blast from a nuclear strike.
It starts with explaining to Russia and our European friends and allies, that Russia is not the enemy of the United States ... that the attitude of mutually assured destruction is a relic of the cold war and that we must address the new threats of the 21st century if we are to have a peaceful continent and a peaceful world.
But this is a path to mutually assured economic destruction--not to combating climate change.
Ever more likely as Republicans engage in assured mutual destruction and the employment picture improves.
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Anonymous and the group calling itself Backtrace Security seem to be engaged in a campaign of mutually-assured anonymity destruction.
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And doesn't that suggest, in turn, that the U.S. and China are headed toward a dynamic of mutually assured cyber destruction?
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