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Why was a builup of weapons big enough for mutually assured destructon seen as a way to preserve peace?
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Unless a country has an irrational death wish, if both itself and Another Country have enough power to where if one full out attacked another, the retaliation would wipe both off the map, then there will never be a full war between the two nations.
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Policy that both sides holding nuclear weapons prevents war?
Mutually Assured Destruction: MAD-
Identify the probable affects of President Eisenhower's threat to use atomic weapons during the Cold War?
MAD=Mutually Assured Destruction.
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 the policy in which the United states and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another?
mutually assured destruction
Why did the US and Soviet Union hesitate to get involved in military conflicts?
Because of "Mutually Assured Destruction." Both sides are armed with nuclear weapons. That has never happened before; starting in 1949.
Policy that both sides holding nuclear weapons prevents war?
Mutually Assured Destruction: MAD-
Why did the two superpowers never fire a shot?
Based on weapons stockpiles, there was mutually assured destruction if the two superpowers went to war
What is MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction.It means that a country will fire its nuclear weapons on the enemy when he sees that the enemy has fired nuclear weapons at them. In the end, both countries are destroyed.
Identify the probable affects of President Eisenhower's threat to use atomic weapons during the Cold War?
MAD=Mutually Assured Destruction.
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 was MAD in the Cold War?
MAD stood for Mutual (or Mutually) Assured Destruction. It refers to nuclear weapons and the basic principle that if, (for example), the United States were to attack the Soviet Union using nuclear weapons then the Soviet Union would respond in the same way. In other words, in trying to destroy the opponent, the aggressor would have guarenteed their own destruction also.
What prevented the US and the Soviet Union from using nuclear weapons?
a fear that they both would be destroyed in nuclear war. That is called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
How did the build up of nuclear weapons discourage their use?
Eventually there were so many nuclear weapons, total destruction of the Earth was possible. The term "Mutually assured destruction (MAD)" was used to describe the resulting holocaust.
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 kept the US and Soviet union from going to war?
"Mutually Assured Destruction." This is why Korea and Vietnam had to be fought as "Limited Wars." Limited to the use of conventional weapons only.
What is the policy in which the United states and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another?
mutually assured destruction
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.
