At the height of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union had sufficient nuclear capacity to launch a nuclear response after being attacked by nuclear weapons. This strategic scenario had what impact on the likelihood of a nuclear conflict?

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This strategic scenario is known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), which posited that the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender, thus deterring both sides from actually initiating a nuclear conflict.

At the Height of the Cold War, Both the United