| But my point is this: that the paradigm of mutually assured destruction served as an easy way to grasp the concept during the cold war. |
| In geopolitics, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction prevents the use of weapons of mass destruction against a foe. |
| The models that received the most attention were those of deterrence, of a balance of terror and of mutually assured destruction. |
| The new approaches still differed from traditional military strategy, but they borrowed far more from its basic principles than mutually assured destruction had. |
| As the Cold War evolved, many of the most influential strategists, began to turn away from mutually assured destruction as it became clear that the strategy was far from guaranteed to work. |
| There were two superpowers, they knew what we had, we knew what they had, mutually assured destruction meant something. |
