| The idea that mutual assured destruction is a policy choice shows a complete misunderstanding of the basic facts of existence. |
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| It would also offer a more rational framework for international security than the awesome, doom-laden strategy of mutual assured destruction. |
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| The SPECTRE spaceship is launched as the clock ticks down to mutual assured destruction. |
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| Mr. Reagan had considered but was unimpressed by the theory of mutual assured destruction. |
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| Nevertheless, each side has armed itself with high-wattage lawyers that are the legal equivalent of mutual assured destruction. |
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| Nuclear parity and fear of mutual assured destruction kept the two rivals in check and helped in preventing war. |
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| This prompts me to probe the foundation of traditional deterrence theory, which evolved in the 1960s to the point of mutual assured destruction. |
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| Faced with Soviet totalitarianism, the prospect of mutual assured destruction for the warring parties created by the thermonuclear arsenal played a more important regulatory role than the newly created United Nations. |
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| In addition, the strategic underpinnings of arms control had been undermined by a growing dissatisfaction in the United States with the principles of mutual assured destruction. |
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| The goal of equal security was at the roots of the outdated system of balance of power or, more crudely, at the heart of the mutual assured destruction, one of the many sad features of the cold war. |
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| Indeed, the CTBT would have been an impossibility had there not been the final demise of the East-West military confrontation that relied on mutual assured destruction to prevent escalation of conflict. |
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| Direct military attacks on adversaries were deterred by the potential for mutual assured destruction using deliverable nuclear weapons. |
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| Mutual assured destruction deterred the Soviets, didn't it? |
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| During the decades of Mutual Assured Destruction, nuclear-armed states were cautious about provocations, confining their interference and bombing to nonnuclear states. |
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| This is Mutual Assured Destruction planned into the next century. |
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