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During the Cold War the foreign policy of the US called for in the event of a Soviet attack.?
Massive Retaliation
What was the official name of the policy under which either the US or the Soviet Union would respond to a nuclear attack by launching its own missile?
Mutual assured destruction
What did the US call for in event of a Soviet attack?
Massive retaliation. The policy was called MAD- Mutual Assured Destruction. If you blow up my country, I will blow up your country.
What role did nuclear weapons play in President Kennedy's foreign policy?
President Kennedy saw US nuclear weapons as a tool of deterrence against Russian aggression and necessary for securing mutually assured destruction.
What was the MAD?
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.
What is a policy designed to discourage attack by threatening nuclear war?
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Policy that both sides holding nuclear weapons prevents war?
Mutually Assured Destruction: MAD-
What is the policy in which the us and the soviet union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another?
MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction.
How is the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction portrayed in Dr Strangelove?
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" .
What was the name of the policy to build more nuclear weapons in order to deter the USSR from attacking the US with nuclear weapons?
Mutually assured destruction, called for short (and sensibly so): the M.A.D. Principle.
What is sum assured in insurance policy?
premium
Wars and mutual assured destruction?
During the Cold War many thousands of nuclear weapons were built by the two opposing camps of the US and the USSR. The purpose of these weapons was not to use them, thereby destroying the human race and making the entire world too radioactive for any person to survive, but rather, it was just a threat. This was formally described as the MAD doctrine, Mutual Assured Destruction. If war were to break out between the US and the USSR, the amount of nuclear weapons involved would be so great that we would be assured that both nations, along with all other nations, would be destroyed. Although this seems like a crazy basis of defense policy, it actually did work. The US and the USSR never attacked each other directly, although they constantly maneuvered for greater international influence, up until the final collapse of the USSR, from its own internal weakness.
