The world has long been awash in enough nuclear weapons to destroy every living thing on the planet. During the cold war, this grim reality had a name: mutually assured destruction. Rational actors ...

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The Hungarian polymath John von Neumann developed the doctrine, although some attribute it or its acronym to others. Neumann is thought by many to have been the smartest person of the 20th Century.

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This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...