Mutual assured destruction

weapons of mass destruction that nobody wants to mess with, causing other countries to respect the countries and nation that have these weapons. The plethora of ways that nuclear weapons can be deployed only help make the other countries that don't have nuclear weapons respect the ones that do even more. The ways that the weapons can be deployed are explained by a nuclear triad, which is the delivery of a strategic nuclear arsenal by…

The engineering of the first nuclear weapons started in the United States in WWII with the Manhattan Project. The introduction of this WMD dramatically changed human warfare by increasing the level of destruction proposed by a single weapon and introduced the concept of mutually assured destruction. States are now more cautious when entering into a conflict because of this newly presented…

New Nuclear Era or Continued Peace The world has seen the use of Nuclear Weapons only twice in combat, both uses were during World War 2 and used by and first developed by the United States. Since then the majority of dominant Nations have each amassed large quantities and stores of their own Nuclear weapons. Ranging from bombs, to Intercontinental Ballistic missiles, and MIRV’s or multiple independently target-able re-entry vehicles. Most countries of the world have some sort of nuclear weapon…

The cold war costs a lot for the United States whose effects are still seen in today’s century. It fueled the economic and social tensions of people which was continuously influencing the world affairs. Firstly, it gave rise to the strong anticommunism within the United States whose hatred results in McCarthyism. They were continuously tormented with the process of identifying and removing the communists from American society. Ongoing, McCarren act was introduced where communist was banned in…

In 1973, two social psychologists named Kerwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor aimed to formulate a process by which we develop and move through relationships. They proposed that interpersonal relationships develop through gradual amounts of mutual self disclosure, their theory is referred to as the social penetration theory. Self disclosure is the sharing of information about yourself because without it relationships and communication is not possible. In the amount that is disclose in anyone’s…

both Kennedy and Khrushchev understood nuclear war to be unacceptable as it would likely lead to the deaths of millions and the destruction of both nations. Not only did the fear of nuclear war encourage reasonable decision-making, but it also allowed for empathy between enemies. Despite the mutual hatred and ideological animosity towards each other, there was a mutual fear that things would escalate beyond control. Throughout the war, the fear of nuclear holocaust was always greater than the…

Built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1961, the Berlin wall also known as the ‘Iron Curtain’, separated the soviet controlled communist East from the democratic West. The wall symbolised the differences between the western democrats and the eastern communist and the ways in which they believed their countries should be led. This period in time demonstrated the tensions of different ideologies between the separate systems of governments of the time; how they worked and the peoples…

Its portrayal of mutually assured destruction epitomized the actual absurdity of the war. The frightening reality of obliteration was probable. Dan Lindley pointed out, “When Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is achieved, it becomes illogical to ever use nuclear weapons, no matter the scenario. If you attack, you will get clobbered. And if you are struck first, there…

you think about? Maybe airplanes dropping bombs, fighter jets, people at war fighting, mass destruction? Is there a war that didn’t involve any of these actions, but involved tension between multiple countries that lasted numerous decades? Yes, there is a war like this, it’s known as the Cold War. Even though the Cold War wasn’t a war, it consisted of wars and events that almost lead to world destruction. This event lasted a little more than four decades, from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was a…

an anti-American culture, and therefore would hate everything we stood for. In a graph of Nuclear Weapons, a reader is able to see how quickly these weapons of Mass Destruction were built. (doc 8) This rapid armament may have been good even though it was absolutely insane. It led to peace through MAD or mutually assured destruction made people feel that they were safe as no one would be crazy enough to shoot each other with these powerful weapons. It is natural that a graph would depict this…