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 MAD turn in our cancel culture battles April 1, 2021 More than 4 years ago At his January 1961 inauguration, President John F. Kennedy raised the specter of mutually assured destruction as it ...

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 ...

Just as arms manufacturers in the 1960s opposed MAD because it called for not building the weapon systems needed to defend against a Soviet attack, cyber-security firms will oppose a cyber MAD policy.

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.

While February 2019 may have only shattered India's confidence in its multi-billion-dollar war machines, May 2025 has totally shattered its dream of becoming a regional hegemon. Moreover, the four-day ...

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 ...

PARIS — Denmark’s contribution to the European Co-production Forum at 2017’s Series Mania came in the form of the Cold War era political thriller M.A.D, short for Mutually Assured Destruction.

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 ...

In his memoir, retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Glenn Kent details how he and a team of researchers at the RAND Corp developed the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) in the ...