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mutual assured destruction
(redirected from Mutual deterrence)

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mutual assured destruction: see nuclear strategy nuclear strategy, a policy for the use of nuclear weapons. The first atomic bombs were used in the context of the Allies' World War II policy of strategic bombing. Early in the cold war, U.S.
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Arguably, the war in Gaza created a new kind of mutual deterrence in this war-torn region.
An order based on the dangerous doctrine of mutual deterrence, was not, however, replaced with a system founded on cooperation and interdependence.
It relies on brute force to protect itself, and rejects any form of mutual deterrence.
 
 
 
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