| The new approaches still differed from traditional military strategy, but they borrowed far more from its basic principles than mutually assured destruction had. |
| Was that enormous number crucial to deterrence, knowing that it was many times what is required for mutually assured destruction? |
| 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. |
| If it comes to the crunch, there will still be mutually assured destruction. |
| Shared recognition of the reality of mutually assured destruction offered a perversely predictable stability. |
| The guiding principle of the cold war, mutually assured destruction, was to deter the use of nuclear weapons by either side. |
