| There were two superpowers, they knew what we had, we knew what they had, mutually assured destruction meant something. |
| In geopolitics, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction prevents the use of weapons of mass destruction against a foe. |
| 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. |
| The new approaches still differed from traditional military strategy, but they borrowed far more from its basic principles than mutually assured destruction had. |
| Concepts like deterrence and mutually assured destruction now have new substance and nuances. |
| The models that received the most attention were those of deterrence, of a balance of terror and of mutually assured destruction. |
