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mutual assured destruction

Severe, unavoidable reciprocal damage that superpowers are likely to inflict on each other or their allies in a nuclear war, conceived as the heart of a doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

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mutual assured destruction (redirected from Nuclear strategy)

mutual assured destruction
(redirected from Nuclear strategy)