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“Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.”

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Author:Tim Dorsey

“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.”

“It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.”

People Memories Leader Moon Destruction Impact Unions Convinced Reaching Agendas Soviet Soviet Union Assured Gorbachev Short Memory Stalemate Mutually Assured Destruction

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.”

War States Philosophy President United United States Cold Weapons Destruction Mad Unions Nuclear Former Iran Mutual Soviet Nuclear Weapons Cold War Soviet Union Assured Deterrent

Author:Bernard Lewis

“Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.”

Two Sometimes America Nations Space Technology Objects Majors Destruction Response Usa Superiority Threatening Assured Apollo Two Nations Apollo 11 Mutually Assured Destruction

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.”

Ifs Knows Needs Long Doe War Peace Failing Needed Destruction Mad Defense Working It Capability Assured Deterrent Deterrence Mutually Assured Destruction

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.”

Ifs World Should Mean Hands Earth Fire Authority Destruction Opposites Destroyed Agents Heat Assured

Book:The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

“if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.”

Ifs Interest Accepting Destruction If I Could Assured

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“Mutually assured destruction.”

Destruction Assured Mutually Assured Destruction

Book:Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive.”

Source: James Hutton & Joseph Black: Biographies

“I have assured His Majesty that our war is against evil, not against Islam. There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they know what I know - that the Muslim faith is based upon peace and love and compassion. The exact opposite of the teachings of the al Qaeda organization, which is based upon evil and hate and destruction.”

“Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.”

Inspirational I Can War Weapons Destruction Aim Guilt Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Assured Work Family Mutually Assured Destruction

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.”

Mind Care Opinion Solitude Argument Destruction Peaceful Former Leisure Assured

Author:Rene Descartes