ＭＡＤ

noun

MAD; mutual assured destruction

Cold War strategic doctrine where a full-scale nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack, resulting in the complete annihilation of both. Used in political, military, and historical contexts.

See also: 相互確証破壊

• 冷れい戦せん時じ代だい、ＭＡＤの概がい念ねんが核かく戦せん争そうを抑よく止ししたと言いわれている。

  It is said that during the Cold War, the concept of MAD deterred nuclear war.

• 相そう互ご確かく証しょう破は壊かい（ＭＡＤ）は、両りょう陣じん営えいが確かく実じつに相あい手てを破は壊かいできる能のう力りょくを持もつことで均きん衡こうが保たもたれるという考かんがえ方かただ。

  Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is the idea that balance is maintained when both sides have the ability to reliably destroy the other.