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. Referee threatened to award touchdown to ...

Space-based interceptors and "particle beams" are part of a new multi-billion-dollar Trump order to build a new U.S. missile ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...