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Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.[1] It is based on the theory of deterrence according to which the deployment of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent the use of the very same weapons. The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium, in which both sides are attempting to avoid their worst possible outcome-nuclear annihilation. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
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What does MAD represent in World War 2?
Mutually Assured Destruction
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)
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 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 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 did the acronym MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What does MAD represent in World War 2?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Do you need to be MAD to want Mutually Assured Destruction?
Maybe.... it depends....
What does MAD stand for in terms of the nuclear arms race?
Mutually Assured Destruction.
What is a policy designed to discourage attack by threatening nuclear war?
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Why didn't the US and the USSR use their nuclear power?
Because it would be MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Policy that both sides holding nuclear weapons prevents war?
Mutually Assured Destruction: MAD-
Why was the cold war so dangerous?
Only if it went hot. If it did...it would've been MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). MAD=Nukes
Identify the probable affects of President Eisenhower's threat to use atomic weapons during the Cold War?
MAD=Mutually Assured Destruction.
Mutually assured destruction and its policies were developed around what weapon?
Mutually assured destruction and its policies were developed around high yield H-bombs that were usually carried by missiles.
Cold war strategy whereby the us was prepared to engage in massive nuclear retaliation at any time?
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Brinkmanship
What was the cold war strategy whereby the us was prepared to engage in massive nuclear retaliation at any time?
MAD, which stands for Mutually Assured Destruction
