The new MAD: An era of assured disruption

The new MAD: An era of assured disruption
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 01, 2014 - For much of the Cold War, the major strategic and security paradigm between east and west was largely (and misleadingly) defined as an era of mutual assured destruction or MAD. MAD meant both sides could assure the near total destruction and defeat of the other in a nuclear or thermonuclear war. Today, despite the presence weapons of mass destruction, the era of MAD is over. But a new strategi ... more

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