Difficult to define exactly, but it's not the actual *name* of a situation or doctrine. Rather, it describes the outcome of a given action in the circumstances:
In the case of the US and USSR, their shared determination to retaliate to an attack by the other - given the size of their nuclear arsenals - would've assured mutual destruction.
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When an individual tends to take on a certain form,attribute or aspect of things very quickly and abruptly;when he/she might think one thing just because you might have said another thing about that subject
Gosh billy was such an assumer yesterday when I texted him,he wanted to go to the movies but I told him I wanted to go with Sandra instead because it would've been fun,then he thought I was saying he wasn't fun?! Like c'mon billy.
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Basically, if you're going to be screwed over, make sure the rest of the world is, too.
Basically, if you're going to be screwed over, make sure the rest of the world is, too.
During the Cold War, the US and the USSR built massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons while following a strategy of mutually assured destruction
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