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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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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 new approaches still differed from traditional military strategy, but they borrowed far more from its basic principles than mutually assured destruction had.
As the Cold War evolved, many of the most influential strategists, began to turn away from mutually assured destruction as it became clear that the strategy was far from guaranteed to work.
In geopolitics, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction prevents the use of weapons of mass destruction against a foe.
The guiding principle of the cold war, mutually assured destruction, was to deter the use of nuclear weapons by either side.

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