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MAD stood for Mutual (or Mutually) Assured Destruction. It refers to nuclear weapons and the basic principle that if, (for example), the United States were to attack the Soviet Union using nuclear weapons then the Soviet Union would respond in the same way.

In other words, in trying to destroy the opponent, the aggressor would have guarenteed their own destruction also.

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Oh, dude, MAD stands for Mutually Assured Destruction. It was like this super chill concept during the Cold War where both the US and the Soviet Union were all, "If you nuke us, we'll nuke you back, bro." So basically, it was a way to prevent full-on nuclear war because everyone knew it would end in, like, total annihilation. Pretty intense stuff, man.

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Mutually Assured Destruction

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