Massive Retaliation
Mutual assured destruction
Massive retaliation. The policy was called MAD- Mutual Assured Destruction. If you blow up my country, I will blow up your country.
The MAD policy is quite simple. It stands for Mutually Assured Destruction. The policy prevents a country from using nuclear weapons of mass destruction. For example, if say country X uses nuclear weapons on country N, then country N, will also use nuclear weapons on country x. In other words, both countries will be annihilated.
President Kennedy saw US nuclear weapons as a tool of deterrence against Russian aggression and necessary for securing mutually assured destruction.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Mutually Assured Destruction: MAD-
mutually assured destruction
MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction.
The "MAD" (Mutually Assured Destruction) military philosophy is portrayed sardonically as each side guarantees that the other will be checked by the fear of meeting the same fate as one's enemies but in the film the "Russkis" trump the US with the "Doomsday Device" since they can't keep up with the "Missile Gap" .
My policy # NC51617 has what value?
Mutually assured destruction, called for short (and sensibly so): the M.A.D. Principle.