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

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India and Pakistan are an example of this; because of the superiority of conventional Indian armed forces to their Pakistani counterparts, Pakistan may be forced to use their nuclear weapons on invading Indian forces out of desperation regardless of an Indian retaliatory strike. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," and "Fail Safe," a thriller directed by Sidney Lumet. 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. Dodgers prepares his secret weapon, an explosive cage around Marvin’s ship, to which the Martian responds by using the exact same weapon on Dodgers’ ship. Lieber and Press argued that the MAD era is coming to an end and that the United States is on the cusp of global nuclear primacy.

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The multiple warheads made defense untenable with the available technology, leaving the threat of retaliatory attack as the only viable defensive option.Bush withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in June 2002, claiming that the limited national missile defense system which they proposed to build was designed only to prevent nuclear blackmail by a state with limited nuclear capability and was not planned to alter the nuclear posture between Russia and the United States. Expanded Universe materials suggest that it was actually built as a weapon against the Borg; however, this conflicts with the episode as aired, in which Spock states that the planet killer's course shows it to have a trans-galactic origin. The problem is that the Tau are just big enough that the local Imperial forces couldn't do the job themselves: they'd have to bring forces in from elsewhere in the galaxy to be sure of victory, at a time when the Imperium is at best barely holding its ground in multiple wars on multiple fronts as it is.

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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.Additionally, since the Race's larger Empire was unreachable, the destruction of their colonists on Earth would not cripple the Empire but would doom humanity.

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However, MAD is applicable in that it may deter Pakistan from making a “suicidal” nuclear attack rather than a defensive nuclear strike. The purpose of the Dead Hand system is to ensure a second strike even if Russia were to suffer a decapitation attack, thus maintaining MAD.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. Russian refusal to accept invitations [ citation needed] to participate in NATO BMD may be indicative of the lack of an alternative to MAD in current Russian war-fighting strategy due to the dilapidation of conventional forces after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The flip side is that with every power in the galaxy being capable of it, they all know that doing it against just about anyone else would see the same thing happen to them.