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(Gareth B) wrote:

If you can point to an official statement from either the whitehouse
or the kremlin that MAD was a "policy", I'd be very interested. My
understanding, from it being beaten into my skull by someone in the US
thinktank industry, is that MAD was NOT a policy, it was a highly
abbraviated expression of the consequences of a large scale nuclear
exchange.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war.../mcnamara.dete
rrence/

Pretty much an official summation of "assured destruction," later called
"Mutual Assured Destruction." Not just an acknowledgement of
consequences, but a statement of policy.

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