Mutually assured destruction
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Mutually assured destruction or mutual assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuc
Aftermath of the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima (August 6, 1945), to date one of the only two times a nuclear strike has been performed as an act of war
Boeing B-47B Stratojet Rocket-Assisted Take Off (RATO) on April 15, 1954
B-52D Stratofortress being refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker, 1965
Robert McNamara
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty or ABMT, was a 1972 arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile s
Launch of a U.S. Army Nike Zeus missile, the first ABM system to enter widespread testing
Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signing SALT II treaty, 18 June 1979, in Vienna
President Reagan delivering the 23 March 1983 speech initiating SDI
Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush sign SORT on 24 May 2002 in Moscow.