At his January 1961 inauguration, President John F. Kennedy raised the specter of mutually assured destruction as it pertained to the Cold War. These days, cancel culture is the social commentary ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a ...

The notion of mutually assured destruction drove Cold War foreign policy, and led both the Soviet Union and the United States to spend tremendous sums of their money on massively expensive nuclear ...

For my generation, the initials MAD summed up the surreal nature of the global contest between the US and the Soviet Union that I now think of as Cold War I.

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Back during the Cold War there was the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) The idea being that there were so many nuclear warheads that both countries, the USSR and the United States ...

As an act of war that portends the widespread loss of life or property, such an attack could, in many instances, be deterred by the threat of a military retaliatory response.