| Concepts like deterrence and mutually assured destruction now have new substance and nuances. |
| There were two superpowers, they knew what we had, we knew what they had, mutually assured destruction meant something. |
| If it comes to the crunch, there will still be mutually assured destruction. |
| The guiding principle of the cold war, mutually assured destruction, was to deter the use of nuclear weapons by either side. |
| Shared recognition of the reality of mutually assured destruction offered a perversely predictable stability. |
| But my point is this: that the paradigm of mutually assured destruction served as an easy way to grasp the concept during the cold war. |
