Mutual assured destruction was the foreign policy of the United States and Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Mutual assured destruction (MAD) was a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. It was employed by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era.

Mutual Assured Destruction Was the Foreign Policy of the United