Summary.
Mutually assured destruction occurs when two forces who have heavily destructive weapons on hand threaten to deploy the weapons. In the case that these weapons were deployed both senders would be annihilated, therefore there is an understanding of mutually assured destruction. This occurred between the Russia and the United States.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
- A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy
- The full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides
- Would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
- Would result in a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction
- Based on the theory of deterrence
- Where the threatening of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent use of same weapons against oneself
- The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium where neither side has any rational incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm
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