Today mutually assured destruction is entrenched and acknowledged, so Vladimir Putin's disturbing rhetoric will remain just that – rhetoric. By attacking the West with nuclear weapons he would ...

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 ...

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.

But for the Left to accept the threat of mutually assured destruction, they're going to have to first see the other side bare its fangs a bit. Some noses must be (proverbially) bloodied.

China and US tariffs were ‘mutually assured destruction’ — negotiation is a win By . Charles Gasparino. Published May 12, 2025, 6:18 p.m. ET.