Mutual Assured Destruction

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noun

a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack.

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Also called MAD

[mad] /mæd/ .

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How to use Mutual Assured Destruction in a sentence

He knew I loved him like a big brother, and I knew the feeling was mutual.
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“The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program,” the Times reported.
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Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.
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Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.
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They assured him that should this happen, many problems would be resolved.
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A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
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And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
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Without any known cause of offence, a tacit acknowledgement of mutual dislike was shewn by Louis and de Patinos.
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I could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.
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The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
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