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mutual assured destruction

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

mutual assured destruction MAD a strategic situation in which both sides possess the ability to inflict unacceptable damage upon the opponent at any time during the course of a strategic nuclear exchange, even after absorbing a surprise first strike.

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second strike

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second strike a retaliatory attack conducted with weapons designed to withstand an initial nuclear attack (a “first strike”).

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