M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Destruction (Modern Plays)

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However, there is some evidence that mutually assured destruction doesn’t actually work. Although no nuclear war has killed off humanity to this day, there have been a lot of close calls. The Cuban missile crisis brought us close to a nuclear holocaust. After the U.S. found out that the Soviet Union installed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba, close to U.S. soil, the U.S. claimed it was ready to use military force to neutralize this threat if necessary. 9 If the U.S. had acted, we might not be here today.

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The Mountain and the Wolf: Tyrion thinks the arrival of the Red Priests will solve their problem since they can just kill the Wolf with their magic. The Red Priest has to tell him that doing so will turn the killer over to Chaos, and the last thing they want is a sorcerer leading the invasion. Not that it's entirely foolproof, since the Wolf is seen to use an Anti-Magic collar when gearing up for what he hopes will be a great battle. DELPECH, THÉRÈSE (2012), "Introduction", Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century, Lessons from the Cold War for a New Era of Strategic Piracy, RAND Corporation, pp.1–8, ISBN 978-0-8330-5930-7, JSTOR 10.7249/mg1103rc.5 , retrieved 2021-04-02Both sides must have a genuine reason and motivation to believe that the other would be willing to destroy them. Any doubt in this area is dangerous. In Season 7 of Supernatural Dean invokes this trope by name when Sam questions their alliance with the demon, Meg. With their closest allies all dead or in Castiel's case, insane, they are out of options. The way Dean sees it, they are dead without each other. Mutually assured destruction is a military mental model with powerful applications in life and business. It refers to a situation where two parties are in a stalemate, and neither can make a move without causing their own destruction. Here’s why this happens and how we can avoid putting ourselves in situations where playing means losing.

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Cited in Wolfgang Panofsky, "The Mutual-Hostage Relations between America and Russia," Foreign Affairs, 52/1, (October 1973): p 118. Goodreads. (n.d.). Mutually Assured Destruction Quotes. Retrieved February 27, 2021, from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mutually-assured-destruction In this article, our writer Justin Fox outlines the evolution of decision-making. He discusses mutually assured destruction as a response to the revolution of rational decision-making that emerged during the World War II era. There was belief, during this time, that the rational thinking employed by statisticians and mathematicians could be applied to other fields, like warfare.

A Taste of Armageddon": Two planets tried to avoid MAD by simulating a nuclear war and having the people who died in the simulation shuffle into Disintegration Chambers, but leaving the infrastructure and environment intact. Which managed to keep the conflict going for over five centuries. Then the simulation had the Enterprise destroyed by a stray missile while visiting one of the combatants, and Kirk quite vehemently refused to abide by their stupid rules. The leaders were certain that they would nuke each other to oblivion now that the rules were broken, but Kirk argued that the fear of a real war might be just the incentive they need to make peace instead, and leaves as negotiations to that end begin.