The US and Russia have, thanks to mutually assured destruction, never engaged in a shooting war with each other.
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The current impasse and lockout is a sure path to mutually assured destruction.
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.
The thought of mutually assured destruction actually kept the peace.
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.
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.
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.
Honing them may help avoid the mutually-assured destruction associated with exercising a nuclear option.
Anonymous and the group calling itself Backtrace Security seem to be engaged in a campaign of mutually-assured anonymity destruction.
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