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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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