What Was the Assumption of Behind "Mutual Assured Destruction

question 54

Multiple Choice

What was the assumption of behind "mutual assured destruction"?

• A) In a U.S.-Soviet crisis Washington would have to launch a nuclear strike first to avoid a Soviet second strike.
• B) Only mutual vulnerability to nuclear attack could prevent nuclear war.
• C) A full-scale nuclear exchange would produce nuclear "winter".
• D) The construction of effective U.S. and Soviet anti-missile defenses would allow both to escape destruction in a nuclear war.

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