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This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) MIRVed land-based ICBMs are generally considered suitable for a first strike (inherently counterforce) or a counterforce second strike, due to: Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, "MAD, not Marx: Khrushchev and the nuclear revolution." Journal of Strategic Studies (2018) 41#1/2:208-233. a b Richard Pipes (1977). "Why the Soviet Union Thinks It Could Fight and Win a Nuclear War" (PDF). Reed College. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 14, 2013 . Retrieved September 4, 2013.

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Abel, Elie (March 17, 1954). "DULLES SAYS PACTS GIVE TO PRESIDENT RETALIATION RIGHT; Declares Congress Need Not Be Consulted First if Foe Strikes U. S. or Allies" (PDF). The New York TImes. The New York TImes Archives . Retrieved 22 September 2022. Chen, J. (2020, February 3). Nash Equilibrium. Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nash-equilibrium.aspThe effect was subtle, but real. Nearly 40 years later, I can remember watching MTV with my arm around a girl and having Men at Work’s “ Overkill”—a video about insomnia brought on by fear of an inevitable nuclear war—push its way into my otherwise distracted consciousness. I wasn’t alone; people my age remember those videos, and many of the songs are still with us. Brendan Rittenhouse Green, The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) Have you heard of the Cold War, which lasted from 1947 to 1991, between the United States and the Soviet Union? Have you ever wondered why it didn't result in another World War, even though other conflicts in Vietnam and Korea acted as proxy wars between the two global superpowers? There was an immense amount of tension and mistrust between the US and the USSR, but it never resulted in an active, “hot” war. But why exactly is that? Severe Consequences

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McNamara estimated that a nuclear strike force with the equivalent explosive power of 400 megatons of TNT — a "few hundred" missiles, as some military planners said — was needed to ensure an effective nuclear deterrence, according to the Brookings Institution.Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Nuclear triad”. Encyclopedia Britannica , 19 Mar. 2020. https://www.britannica.com/topic/nuclear-triad. Find sources: "Mutual assured destruction"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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The Soldier. Renegade Russian KGB operatives pose as terrorists and plant an atomic bomb in the Middle Eastern oilfields. If the US doesn't force the Israelis off the West Bank, they will irradiate the world's oil supply. In response, the Soldier's force take over an ICBM silo and threaten to launch on Moscow if the KGB doesn't cancel the operation. Proud Prophet was a series of war games played out by various American military officials. The simulation revealed MAD made the use of nuclear weapons virtually impossible without total nuclear annihilation, regardless of how nuclear weapons were implemented in war plans. These results essentially ruled out the possibility of a limited nuclear strike, as every time this was attempted, it resulted in a complete expenditure of nuclear weapons by both the United States and USSR. Proud Prophet marked a shift in American strategy; following Proud Prophet, American rhetoric of strategies that involved the use of nuclear weapons dissipated and American war plans were changed to emphasize the use of conventional forces. [37] TTAPS Study [ edit ] The Rt Hon Harold Macmillan, Robert MacNeil and Lord Harlech discussing President Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy balanced the different perceptions of the conflict by being bullish in public, giving an ultimatum to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, and in private, telling Khrushchev that the missiles would be destroyed if he didn’t withdraw them, but, if he, did, US missiles would leave Turkey within six months. It worked. Mutually Assured DestructionDELPECH, 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 2021-04-02 In fact, messages about nuclear weapons, nuclear war, and the end of humanity, by some counts, appeared almost hourly on MTV, making nuclear destruction second only to sex as the most ubiquitous video theme flooding the eyes of America’s youth in the 1980s. Jervis, Robert (1976). Perception and Misperception in International Politics: New Edition. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-8511-4. U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared in 1985 that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”, a view that Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin reiterated in their June 2021 summit meeting. Many American leaders and their top advisers have affirmed the goal of a nuclear-free world, without being able to articulate how to achieve it. Most have supported arms control agreements, while understanding that the agreements neither advanced progress toward nuclear disarmament nor increased the likelihood that the United States would survive a nuclear war. Reagan was the notable exception. His Strategic Defense Initiative, announced in March 1983 and derisively referred to as “Star Wars” by its detractors, intended to provide an alternative to mutually assured destruction. His administration was never able to persuade its Soviet interlocutors that the initiative was more than a unilateral effort to attain a decisive first-strike advantage and they became convinced that less demanding advances in offensive weaponry could counter it. Mutual assured destruction, often abbreviated as MAD, it is part of the military strategy of deterrence.

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Communication between nuclear powers became a cornerstone of nuclear policy – helping to avoid misreading situations or underestimating the response from your adversary. JFK’s balancing of Khrushchev’s gambit and US public opinion during The Cuban Missile Crisis was the case study for this. Years Later, '2001: A Space Odyssey' Is Still an Unparalleled Marvel on the Big Screen". TVOvermind. 2018-08-31 . Retrieved 2018-09-15. Time to re-assess mutually assured destruction". BMJ: British Medical Journal. 359. 2017. ISSN 0959-8138. JSTOR 26951722. Toning Up the Nuclear Triad". Time. 1985-09-23. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008 . Retrieved 2010-10-08. 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.

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Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press "The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006, pp 42–55. But the threat of nuclear annihilation remains real. The Federation of American Scientists, a nonprofit founded in 1945 by scientists and engineers who had worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the first nuclear bomb, reports that as of early 2022, about 12,700 nuclear warheads are possessed today by nine countries: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. Most of them are held by the United States and Russia, which have about 4,000 warheads each. And according to a 2018 scientific study in the journal Safety, that's enough to wipe out almost all of us. 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. After finishing this masterly work, I am left with three main thoughts. First, it seems like American policymakers got more right than wrong about the Cold War nuclear arms competition. Second, I wonder now if victory was in fact possible in a nuclear war. Finally, can Green’s theory explain competition and arms control before and after the groovy 1970s? Their high accuracy (low circular error probable), compared to submarine-launched ballistic missiles which used to be less accurate, and more prone to defects;

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