What does M.A.D. mean? M.A.D. refers to the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides, resulting in one clear, obvious outcome – mutually assured destruction.

The Trump administration's Iron Dome for America executive order is causing political ripples, but with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) soliciting industry input on the concept, how would such a ...

(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Government institutions keep casting stones at each other without realizing they are accelerating towards mutually assured destruction. If they do not start ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

Across the four episodes of the series, Matthew explores the intellectual and strategic frameworks, birthed by the bomb ... idea of nuclear conflict leading to "mutually assured destruction ...

technological challenges and fears of mutually assured destruction kept such a doomsday on the distant horizon. As years passed, U.S. and Russian stockpiles of nuclear warheads grew, then shrank ...

It also called for an end to rationalizing nuclear deterrence theory, arguing that the policy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) threatened national security and increased the risk that nuclear ...