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mutual assured destruction
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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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But to present Henry Wallace and others who warned against the cost of isolating the Soviet Union as discredited ignores the high cost and sheer madness of Mutually Assured Destruction.
The great liberal debate by Conniff, Ruth / The Progressive
Any conflict in or around the Taiwan Strait that resulted in a break in trade, he said, would result in the "computing equivalent of Mutually Assured Destruction.
War, trade and utopia by Lynn, Barry C. / The National Interest
Since each country packed an intercontinental plutonium punch, an all-out war would just mean mutually assured destruction.
Cold war by Malto, Sean / Thrasher
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