Mutual assured destruction | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:00:46 1 Theory
00:03:20 2 History
00:03:28 2.1 Pre-1945
00:05:25 2.2 Early Cold War
00:07:01 2.3 Strategic Air Command
00:08:55 2.4 Retaliation capability (second strike)
00:12:14 2.5 ABMs threaten MAD
00:12:45 2.6 MIRVs
00:12:54 2.6.1 MIRVs as counter against ABM
00:14:52 2.6.2 Land-based MIRVed ICBMs threaten MAD
00:17:06 2.7 Late Cold War
00:20:30 2.8 Post-Cold War
00:23:23 3 Official policy
00:25:49 4 Criticism
00:25:58 4.1 The doctrine of nuclear deterrence depends on several challengeable assumptions



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Mutual(ly) 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 term "mutual assured destruction" was coined by Donald Brennan, a strategist working in Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute in  1962.