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Mutually assured destruction

Doctrine of military strategyStrategic bombers, ICBMs, SLBMs, and MIRVs all contribute to mutually assured destruction via a large number of deliverablestrategic nuclear weapons.Mutually assured destruction or mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

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