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  • MAD is the acronym for Mutually Assured Destruction.

    Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010

  • Bénabou describes a model of collective reality denial, or groupthink, that he calls Mutually Assured Delusion:

    US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha 2009

  • Bénabou describes a model of collective reality denial, or groupthink, that he calls Mutually Assured Delusion:

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • Another reason neither side launched their nuclear missiles against each other was because of a theory called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Dubbed "Star Wars" by critics, SDI was Reagan's attempt to change America's historic policy of basing its national security on a concept called Mutually Assured Destruction - or MAD for short.

    www.appeal-democrat.com - News : 2009

  • Another reason neither side launched their nuclear missiles against each other was because of a theory called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • During the much of the Cold War, the balance of power was actually a balance of terror -- the strategy of nuclear deterrence known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

    Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2009

  • Deterrence doesn't work if you aren't willing to use it if need be (aka Mutually Assured Destruction).

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

  • What we as SF writers often run into these days is a kind of Mutually Assured Destruction scenario where One Cool Idea has to be topped with another.

    Futurizing 2007

  • Additionally, the potential for terrorist organizations obtaining and using nuclear weapons against the United States further exacerbates the broader nuclear threat and renders previously held theories of containment, such as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), impotent -- such theories do not resonate with groups willing to die for their cause.

    Latest Articles American Thinker 2010

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