Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in End of the Cold War.
The military theory that a full-scale nuclear exchange would completely annihilate both the attacker and the defender, acting as a deterrent to war.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Superpower Relations and the Cold War, especially End of the Cold War and Détente.
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