Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
- MAD
- The testing of larger and larger weapons made this a major issue in the 1960s
- Partial Test Ban Treaty resulted after Cuban Missile Crisis and fear of MAD
"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
Subjunctive Question
If nuclear weapons had never been invented would this have allowed for more wars to happen?
Summary
Mutually assured destruction was the idea that if one Country dropped a nuclear bomb than the there country would too and both would end up dead. This caused them to stop the testing of nuclear bombs because both sides knew it was not an option.