Friday, November 8, 2013
MAD
Today in CWI, we watched a documentary on about MAD, mutually assured destruction. The Soviets and Americans had a MAD relationship were each side was basically scared into thinking that the other side would attack them and kill most of them eventually if they attacked the other side first and no one would win. This put the US and USSR in order to not do a first strike anytime soon. Through MAD, submarines were made that could carry many tons of nuclear weapons so that if one side did attack the other, MAD could work and then the submarines would surface and attack the other side with the many nuclear weapons the submarines could hold.
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I think MAD overall was pretty ineffective, because of how significant it made a first strike. Because each nation had equal weapons now, and neither was overpowering, a first strike would be the only way to win a possible nuclear war, so MAD increased tensions.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that MAD was the most effective way of keeping the peace during the Cold War. It caused both sides to realize that they could not attack without a retaliation being launched that would destroy 50-75% of the first aggressors population.
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