M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Destruction (Modern Plays)

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In addition, as the idea of a missile gap existing between the US and the Soviet Union developed, there was increasing priority being given to ICBMs over bombers. Relations between the United States and Russia were, at least for a time, less tense than they had been with the Soviet Union.

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Notably, the unrepentant batarian murderer and slaver Charn in the Bring Down the Sky DLC is horrified when he learns that his boss, Balak, intends to drop a meteor on the human colony of Terra Nova, as him doing so would force the Council races to retaliate in kind, very possibly to the point of exterminating the entire batarian race. Sonata Arctica's "Destruction Preventer" is about how starting a nuclear war will lead to destruction.The strategy is a form of Nash equilibrium in which, once armed, neither side has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm. However, multiple scientific studies showed technological and logistical problems in these systems, including the inability to distinguish between real and decoy weapons. It was also responsible for the arms race, as both nations struggled to keep nuclear parity, or at least retain second-strike capability. The titular One Man Armies of Mistborn: The Original Trilogy produce a similar effect: If one Great House sends its Mistborn to assassinate members of another House, the second House will send its Mistborn right back. Christo, not wanting his newfound demonic allies to be compromised or for there to be destruction and death on such a huge scale, threatens to tell Void Dark where Celestia is and thus enable an equally destructive counterattack if the weapon is fired.

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Twilight Struggle, being a game about the Cold War, uses the threat of this as a Non-Standard Game Over. The rogue AI Joshua, having mistaken a simulation for reality and set NORAD on an irreversible World War III scenario, was just programmed by the heroes to play Tic-Tac-Toe against itself repeatedly until it "learned" that a win was impossible for either player. For instance, "rogue states," like North Korea and Iran, are striving to develop nuclear missiles, perhaps in the hope that they will be able to at least inflict severe damage on an enemy before they are annihilated by a nuclear counterstrike — a partial application of the MAD doctrine, according to a 2019 analysis by the U. A military leader of the rebels explains that during the previous war, they restrained from using all their weapons because of the same reason.The concept was also described in 1863 by Jules Verne in his novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, though it was not published until 1994. In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Skull Face's Evil Plan is to abuse this to keep his Villain World intact. Turns out that a strong, charismatic leader in the wrong place at the wrong time can induce a "follow the crowd" effect, which causes cowards to become instant patriots who will sacrifice the world out of spite, and cannot be easily reversed by the leader changing his opinion. However, MAD is applicable in that it may deter Pakistan from making a “suicidal” nuclear attack rather than a defensive nuclear strike.

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The central thing was the public had no control," says Dr Christopher Laucht, a lecturer in British history at Leeds University. Meanwhile, the theocracy running Bevelle couldn't use Vegnagun to conquer the world - or do anything with it, really - because Vegnagun was born insane and willing to nuke everything if it ever woke up. I, Strategic Air Command Operations during the Cuban Crisis of 1962, circa 1963, Top Secret, Excised Copy | National Security Archive".The fact that nuclear proliferation has led to an increase in the number of nations in the " nuclear club", including nations of questionable stability (e. Wulfrik: Comes upon occasion with regards to Wulfrik's curse (to Walk the Earth, getting into fights with what/whoever it is the Chaos gods want dead, or suffer nightmares and eventually have their souls ripped apart by daemons for eternity): If he isn't killed in battle but with magic, the curse will transfer to the killer instead.

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This policy was further developed by the Reagan administration with the announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, nicknamed "Star Wars"), the goal of which was to develop space-based technology to destroy Soviet missiles before they reached the United States. Eight months after McNamara's speech the notion of MAD was almost put to the test by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Soviets believed they could win not only a strategic nuclear war, which they planned to absorb with their extensive civil defense planning, [48] [51] [52] but also the conventional war that they predicted would follow after their strategic nuclear arsenal had been depleted. Then the respective dictators decided to distract their oppressed people by starting a war, and launched the missiles at the same time.