The concept of mutually assured destruction, a geopolitical maxim that follows from game theory, whereby two nuclear-armed nation-state actors are faced with mutual annihilation if one miscalculates. If one attacks the other it will set off a chain of events that lead to a nuclear exchange, a scenario where no one wins and both lose. This maxim has lead…
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