Mutually Assured Destruction: 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.
Mutually assured destruction, called for short (and sensibly so): the M.A.D. Principle.
The Soviet Union made their own nuclear weapons to compete with the US
It was called "massive retaliation."
Three states-India, Israel, and Pakistan-have declined to sign the treaty. India and Pakistan are confirmed nuclear powers, and Israel has a long-standing policy of deliberate ambiguity (see List of countries with nuclear weapons). These countries argue that the NPT creates a club of "nuclear haves" and a larger group of "nuclear have-nots" by restricting the legal possession of nuclear weapons to those states that tested them before 1967, but the treaty never explains on what ethical grounds such a distinction is valid. India and Pakistan have publicly announced possession of nuclear weapons and have detonated nuclear devices in tests, India having first done so in 1974 and Pakistan following suit in 1998 in response to another Indian test. India is estimated to have enough fissile material for more than 150 warheads. Pakistan reportedly has between 80 and 120 warheads according to the former head of its strategic arms division.[15]India is one of the few countries to have a no first use policy, a pledge not to use nuclear weapons unless first attacked by an adversary using nuclear weapons. The main reason India cites for not signing the NPT and for possessing nuclear weapons is that China is one of the "nuclear haves."[citation needed] China and India have a longstanding border dispute, including a border war in 1962.
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Nuclear weapons WERE the cold war. No Nukes, No Cold War.
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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.
Japan has the technological capability to develop nuclear weapons quickly, but it has chosen not to do so due to its commitment to a non-nuclear policy.
The threat that nuclear weapons would be used.
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China is not a nuclear free zone. They have many nuclear weapons. Though China has a nuclear policy which states that they are not allowed to produce,fire, or give away these weapons.
That is a policy goal of preventing more countries from developing or acquiring nuclear weapons. Michael Montagne
Brinkmanship
Announced US Policy, diected at the Soviet Union, that declared that the US could or would respond with the maximum number of nuclear weapons, if the United States (or key allies) was attacked with one or more nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union or any of its allies. It was designed to deter the Soviets from the use of nuclear weapons.