re: As the Capstone Crumbles *Updated* Aaron Suttles responds

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I don't know what that means.

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You must be very young.

The primary nuclear "defense" between the USA and the former Soviet Union was referred to as "MAD" which stood for "Mutally Assured Destruction".

In other words, both nations had so many nukes neither one would attack the other because it would assure the destruction of both countries.