Mutually Assured Destruction

What concept did policymakers academics think was responsible for the superpowers NOT using their nuclear arsenals on each other?

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Mutually assured destruction (MAD)

• Lowest common denominator (LCD)

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was a doctrine that assumed which of the following?

• Only one superpower would survive a nuclear war

• Nuclear weapons should never be used

• Any nuclear conflict would result in the total destruction of both the attacker and the defender

• Nuclear weapons could be used in a limited way without escalating to full-scale war

POLICY OF THREATENING TO USE HUGE FORCES IN RESPONSE TO AGGRESSION

• NATIONALIZE

• RED SCARE

• SUEZ CRISIS

• MASSIVE RETALIATION

• MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION

Policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another

• Brinkmanship

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Massive Retaliation

• Demobilization

What is "a Cold War policy to respond to any attack with nuclear force, resulting in the total destruction of both parties"?

• Arms Race

• Massive Retaliation

• Military Industrial Complex

• Brinkmanship

• Mutually Assured Destruction

if either US or the USSR was hit with a nuclear weapons they would respond with the same

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Nuclear Weapons Test

• Marshall Plan

• Peristroika

What Cold War strategy involved the idea that both the US and USSR would face total destruction in the event of a nuclear war?

• A) Containment

• B) Detente

• C) Mutually Assured Destruction

• D) Flexible Response

Which doctrine is based on the belief that nuclear war would lead to the annihilation of both the attacker and the defender?

• A) Mutually Assured Destruction

• B) Isolationism

• C) Non-Proliferation

• D) Disarmament

What was the primary purpose of the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine during the Cold War?

• A) To promote nuclear disarmament

• B) To prevent nuclear war through deterrence

• C) To encourage arms race

• D) To establish nuclear superiority

Which of the following best describes the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction?

• A) A strategy to win nuclear wars

• B) A policy to prevent nuclear conflict

• C) A method to increase nuclear stockpiles

• D) A plan to use nuclear weapons in conventional warfare