/mjuːtʃuəli əˈʃʊrd dɪˈstrʌkʃən/
Timeframe: 01/01/1962 – 02/12/2023
Key Insights
- Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a nuclear doctrine first coined by Herman Kahn of the US Hudson Institute. It asserts that a nuclear attack would result in the annihilation of both parties. MAD assumes the attacked party would retain enough nuclear weapons to launch a second strike. During the second strike, the attacker would also be annihilated.
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