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What is the importance of Mutual Assured Destruction?
It ensures (hopefully) that both nations are too frightened to launch their nuclear munitions.
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 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 does MAD stand for in terms of the nuclear arms race?
Mutually Assured Destruction.
How did Mutually Assured Destruction help stop a nuclear war?
Mutually Assured Destruction made sure that both the United States and Russia were too scared to launch their nuclear munitions at one another (no matter how much they'd like to).
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