mutually assured destruction Concepts

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point of 1962, when the Cuban missile crisis pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war, receded into the past, and the logic of mutually assured destruction, whereby each side’s vulnerability to attack prevented either from launching a first strike, led to a peculiar form of Cold War stability. This culminated

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, 286 Mueller, Robert, 330–1, 343 Munich Security Conference (2007), 326 Murphy, Cynthia, see Guryev, Lidiya Murphy, Richard, see Guryev, Vladimir Muslim Battalion, 276–8 mutually assured destruction, 111, 236 N Nagayev, Vladimir, 168–71 Namakon, 305 Napoleon (hotel), 41–2 Naryshkin, Sergei, 344–5, 347 NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space

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, he added, the higher the debt level, the more dangerous it would be for the banks to pull the plug. Masa understood the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, especially later in his career when SoftBank’s borrowings and leverage took on even greater proportions. Kasai, who had five other jobs, including president of

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. With their spending war showing no signs of abating and both companies still nowhere near profitable, combining forces would be the only way to avoid mutually assured destruction. However, Nigel Eccles, who had fallen out with his company’s board of directors and would soon leave on bad terms, took a darker view

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that, official public policy regarding the use of nuclear weapons left much to be desired: “Nuclear Tripwire,” “Massive Retaliation,” and what later became known as Mutual Assured Destruction (“MAD”). Kahn, a military analyst at Rand since 1948, understood that a defense based on that sort of inconceivable presumption was morally questionable and not

Strategy: A History

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, 623, 628–629 McKinsey & Company Consulting, 497, 544–546 McNamara, Robert Cuban missile crisis and, 175 Ford Motor Company and, 501–502 Luttwack on, 202 mutually assured destruction theory and, 170 quantitative analysis and, 149–150, 199, 202, 501–502, 546 Second World War and, 501 Vietnam War and, 149, 502 McNaughton, John

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, 241 escalation and, 176 first-strike capability and, 167–169, 171 game theory and, 155 Manhattan Project and, 147–148 massive retaliation doctrine and, 157 mutually assured destruction theory and, 170, 218 Schelling on, 164–165, 167–173 Second World War and, 143, 156, 217 second-strike capability and, 168–170 Soviet Union

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emergency LOX—liquid oxygen, a propellant that was used as an oxidizer, in combination with rocket fuel, to launch Atlas and Titan I missiles MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction, a nuclear strategy that seeks to maintain peace by ensuring that adversaries have the capability to destroy one another MANIAC—the Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator

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of the United States and the Soviet Union vulnerable to annihilation, McNamara now thought, would keep them safe. The strategy was soon known as MAD: “mutually assured destruction.” The strategic thinking at the White House and the Department of Defense, however, didn’t correspond to the targeting policies at SAC headquarters in Omaha

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to destroy the United States in any nuclear exchange, it would stop building new missiles. But the Soviets didn’t share McNamara’s faith in mutually assured destruction. After the humiliation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of their diplomats had told an American counterpart, “You Americans will never be able to do

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of, xvi, 228 at Titan II accident site, 228, 402, 403, 408 Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), xxi, 352 Murrow, Edward R., 74, 156 Mutually assured destruction (MAD), xx, 302, 352 MX missiles, 364–65, 441 Nagasaki, atomic bombing of, 53–55 Namu island, 149 National Deep Underground Command Center, 274 National

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troubled by a Pentagon briefing in 1983 on SIOP, the Single Integrated Operational Plan for all-out nuclear war. He found the deterrence logic of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) to be deeply disturbing, and he struggled to escape its grasp. As Reagan said repeatedly, including at his first meeting with Soviet president Mikhail

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side should target the other’s cities, with a view to causing the maximum number of casualties possible.70 The new strategy became known as “Mutual Assured Destruction”—its acronym, with wicked appropriateness, was MAD. The assumption behind it was that if no one could be sure of surviving a nuclear war, there

The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991

by Robert Service · 7 Oct 2015

prevent a nuclear ‘first strike’. The Americans could only retaliate – which would mean that they would blow Moscow to bits: this was the logic of ‘mutually assured destruction’. The problem was that the entire planet would suffer from blast, fire, radiation and smoke that would kill hundreds of millions of people, perhaps billions

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word that the President was serious about making nuclear war impossible.23 Reagan had been talking about ‘defensive concepts’ since 1973. Hating the idea of mutually assured destruction, he searched for a way of protecting America from the threat of nuclear holocaust. Among those who knew his thoughts were theoretical physicist Edward Teller

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1981 that ‘the time was not yet ripe for major change in Eastern Europe’. Reagan explained his general strategy as moving beyond the constraints of mutually assured destruction towards big reductions in the number of weapons on both sides.28 Casaroli in the same year was intervening with the Kremlin frequently on the

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the arguments that Thatcher was making. They were not alone. Poindexter had always believed it would be disastrous to eliminate nuclear weaponry; he believed in mutually assured destruction as the best way to keep world peace. Nitze was in favour of resuming talks with the USSR but feared that Gorbachëv wanted to get

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the consequences of nuclear disarmament was left dangling in the air.53 One thing was fixed in his mind: the desire to end reliance on mutually assured destruction. Global affairs had to rest on a different basis. On this, Reagan never wavered. PART THREE 22. THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED The President experienced a

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the rest of the world. She said that when this happened, the whole world would become a different place.53 This reasserted her belief in mutually assured destruction: ‘Both our countries [USSR and UK] know from bitter experience that conventional weapons do not deter war in Europe, whereas nuclear weapons have done so

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no way to prove to the Americans they had done so.) Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove explores the bizarre logic of deterrence and mutual assured destruction. In the film, the Soviet ambassador explains to an assembled group of American military and political leaders that the Soviet Union has built a “doomsday

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Beyond: Our Future in Space

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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

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The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches

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The Future of Fusion Energy

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The State of the Art

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Geek Wisdom

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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

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Twilight of Abundance: Why the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short

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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History

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The Fear Index

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Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence

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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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