As the Cold War progressed and both sides acquired vast arsenals of nuclear weapons, this concept gained more and more credence. By the mid-1965, the combined US-USSR stockpile of nuclear weapons ...

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 US and China Are Waging a Cold War That Is Truly MAD. A conflict between the two superpowers would trigger mutually assured financial destruction. September 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM EDT.

The acronym is a reference to the Cold War era and the Rand-coined MAD, short for mutually assured destruction. Such evocative acronyms, reminiscent of nuclear tensions, are undeniably effective ...

On the right, Reagan’s political and religious allies had aligned behind a strategy of unlimited nuclear buildup, framed by the fatalistic concept of MAD, mutually assured destruction.

The prospect of mutually assured destruction (MAD) helped avert nuclear conflict during the Cold War. Hopefully, fear of the economic equivalent will do a similar trick when it comes to a showdown ...

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 ...