M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Destruction (Modern Plays)

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She gave the technology to both sides of the pony/zebra war, hoping that if neither side would kill the other, both would give up on the war. Beginning in 1955, the United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) kept one-third of its bombers on alert, with crews ready to take off within fifteen minutes and fly to designated targets inside the Soviet Union and destroy them with nuclear bombs in the event of a Soviet first-strike attack on the United States. E., an uneasy standoff had been held between Equestria and the USR for a decade because both sides had enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other utterly. For instance, a 2012 study by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists found that just 100 nuclear detonations of the size that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki would usher in a planetary nuclear winter, which would drop temperatures lower than they were in the Little Ice Age, Live Science previously reported. as part of the rapid-fire Info Dump that explains why the film's MacGuffin (a surveillance satellite that went down near the titular polar station and which contains on film the precise locations of all the nuclear silos on Russia and North America) is so important: such information would surely allow the enemy to devise a "survivable" battle strategy for an all-out nuclear assault.

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Given their respective power levels, and their unwillingness to surrender, the Sentry states that this would be the end result of their fighting at that stage. The Soviets believed they could win not only a strategic nuclear war, which they planned to absorb with their extensive civil defense planning, [48] [51] [52] but also the conventional war that they predicted would follow after their strategic nuclear arsenal had been depleted. The Butter Battle Book features two cultures (the Yooks and the Zooks), separated by a wall and, competing in an arms race to destroy the other side; however, each new Yook weapon (ranging from giant slingshots to bipedal mechs armed with chemical goo) turns back due to the Zooks developing the same weapon or a counter-weapon.

Daniel Amos mentioned the possibility of nuclear armageddon in three separate songs on their 1984 album Vox Humana. Several thousand additional retired but intact warheads are awaiting dismantling, probably 3,500-4,500 as of August 2010.

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The flip side is that with every power in the galaxy being capable of it, they all know that doing it against just about anyone else would see the same thing happen to them.

But when the Metarex war distracts the Demons, Allysion realizes she can gain a massive advantage over her enemy by invading the Milky Way first. This is especially true for countries like North Korea which have extensive ballistic missiles that could strike space-based systems. DEFCON is essentially a Mutually-Assured Destruction Simulator, directly inspired by the War Games example above. This section includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.

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One of the purposes of the Admiral Peary is to place a nuclear launch platform in orbit of Home, the Race's homeworld in Tau Ceti, a clear case of Gunboat Diplomacy: either the Race deals with humans on equal terms, or both Earth and large areas of Home will be destroyed. Though the Minuteman III of the mid-1960s was MIRVed with three warheads, heavily MIRVed vehicles threatened to upset the balance; these included the SS-18 Satan which was deployed in 1976, and was considered to threaten Minuteman III silos, which led some neoconservatives to conclude a Soviet first strike was being prepared for. Note that meteor drops can be stopped (either by shutting off/destroying the thrusters or by destroying the ship before it can tow in any asteroids), particularly if the defender has total space superiority. Fallout: Equestria: Fluttershy, as Equestria's Minister of Peace, created the megaspell as a part of the CARE initiative (Communally Assured Reciprocal Existence) with the intention of it being used to augment shields and healing magic.

However, the United States ended up using up their share in an attempt to kill Makima, and with Denji killing the Gun Fiend and making the public believe the Gun Devil was dead it's likely that it's been weakened to the point that this strategy is no longer viable. Subverted in the lawless Terminus systems, where small states ("small" meaning "only controls one or a few planets") apparently use meteor drops against each other fairly often. In the 1960s both the Soviet Union ( A-35 anti-ballistic missile system) and the United States ( LIM-49 Nike Zeus) developed anti-ballistic missile systems. The strategy is a form of Nash equilibrium in which, once armed, neither side has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm.