MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
- MAD
- the testing of larger and larger weapons made this a major issue in the 1960's
- partial test ban treaty resulted after Cuban Missile Crisis and fear of MAD
- became major focus for Richard Nixon as part of his Detente policy
Summary: Mutually Assured Destruction was a guarantee that if any country was to release any nuclear weapon, every other country that held them would release as well. This meaning that nothing would live after and everything in the world would be destroyed.