mutually assured destruction

a.k.a. MAD, refers to the military stalemate between Russia and USA between late 1940 and the present. The basic premise is that each side has so many nuclear weapons in its arsenal, that strike/counter strike would destroy both combatants.

mutually assured destruction by Anonymous September 3, 2003

Mutually Assured Destruction

When a couple mutually decide at the same time to end a relationship with no chance of ever being in relationship with one another ever again. Basically Nuke with Salted Earth only both mutually agree and launch nukes with salted earth at the same time. Or in response to knowing a break up notice is approaching.

Kyle and Kimberly are not together; it was mutually assured destruction.

Mutually Assured Destruction by Liberation Theology October 28, 2019

mutually assured destruction

1. (MAD) Any situation or course of action which ensures the total erradication of all parties involved.

2. Often used to describe what would have happened in the Cold War Era were one side to have attacked the other using nuclear weapons, causing the other side to retaliate, ensuring the nuclear obliteration of most of Asia and North America.

1. When Phil and Bob entered into that gay-suicide-love-pact, they were pursuing a course of mutually assured destruction.

2. Mutually assured destruction never happened in the Cold War -- look around you people; we're living in America, not the movie Cyborg.

mutually assured destruction by Al October 12, 2003

mutually assured destruction

Of two warring factions, where one group strikes and the other retaliates with the same force, resulting in the obliteration of both.

"Speak of mutually assured destruction... nice story, tell it to Reader's Digest!"

mutually assured destruction by Saucy September 2, 2003

mutually assured destruction

Happens when one person wittingly shares fluids with another person who is H.I.V. Positive or vice versa.

Tom agreed to roger Bill which is an agreement of mutually assured destruction.

mutually assured destruction by Peter Nubile September 2, 2003

Mutually Assured Destruction

The "lose-lose" scenario in any kind of war, although nuclear war is often associated with this term.

"From my reading of various pronoucements made by the Russian High Command over the years, I am convinced that they will never again permit their nation to be threatened... no matter what the cost... that cost itself may actually is Mutually Assured Destruction."

-- Alan Moore, as the voice of Professor Milton Glass, "Dr. Manhattan: Super-Powers and the Superpowers", in Watchmen (DC Comics, 1986)

Mutually Assured Destruction by T-Boy August 29, 2003

mutually assured destruction

1. A position whereby the United States and the USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - would in a nuclear war, be able to destroy each other with their arsenals of nuclear weapons. Each maintaining the possibility to strike the other even if one party fired first. The phrase mutually assured destruction thereby implies that both parties assumed the ability to strike and destroy the other. A catastrophic eventuality if it ever arose. Both parties thus maintained this position, assuring each other than nuclear weapons would not be used, even if a conventional war broke out. The downfall of the Soviet system and emergence of the Russian federation did not make a nuclear war ineffectual, rather it maintains that the two parties still have the capability - and underscores the fact that a nuclear war between these nuclear giants is an inevitability.
2. While this term is specifically used to term the USA and Russia, it may also be applied to China as the latter has built an intercontinental ballistic arsenal that would be deployable if the USA and China ever faced off.

mutually assured destruction by situationst September 2, 2003