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What is mutually assured destruction?

What is mutually assured destruction? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative form of mutual assured destruction
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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.

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