| Nevertheless, each side has armed itself with high-wattage lawyers that are the legal equivalent of mutual assured destruction. |
| It would also offer a more rational framework for international security than the awesome, doom-laden strategy of mutual assured destruction. |
| The SPECTRE spaceship is launched as the clock ticks down to mutual assured destruction. |
| The idea that mutual assured destruction is a policy choice shows a complete misunderstanding of the basic facts of existence. |
| The goal of equal security was at the roots of the outdated system of balance of power or, more crudely, at the heart of the mutual assured destruction, one of the many sad features of the cold war. |
| Mr. Reagan had considered but was unimpressed by the theory of mutual assured destruction. |
