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.

by situationst September 2, 2003

asbury

A tiny little college in Kentucky. Commonly referred to as the 'bury.

Where do you go to college?
I go to Asbury.

by Razberryslush April 3, 2007

asburgers

Gabe brenneman

Gabe has asburgers

by Nazi hitler June 5, 2018

mutually assured

When both parties are simultaneously guaranteed satisfaction.

By engaging in a 69, both me and my girlfriend were mutually assured a wild climax.

by JlO September 5, 2003

Mutually Assured Blumpkin

When two people performing oral sex on each other simulaneously shit their pants.

Jayson and Steve's date was going so well, until it was ruined by Mutually Assured Blumpkin.

by MANvsBlumpkin August 28, 2012

mutually assured destruction

Where two guys face each other, wanking off, and try to have both ejaculates collide in mid-air, thus averting catastrophe.

Shall we save the world again tomorrow, Bill?

...from mutually assured destruction

by Big Pawel April 20, 2008

mutually assured

when ur "mutually assured it means that as of now u and the negro next to u knows that ur both packin heat and that he pulled on u u could pull right back on him

the skinny white man with a shotgun in his trench coat was mutually assured by the large black man next to him that he was not goin down without a fight

by eric fool September 16, 2003