Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in The Cold War: East and West (1945–1972).
A military doctrine where full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both, making arms races strategically pointless.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Wider World Depth Studies, especially The Cold War: East and West (1945–1972) and Easing of Tension.
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