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单词 mutually assured destruction
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mutually assured destruction in British English

(ˈmjuːtʃʊəlɪ əˈʃʊəd dɪˈstrʌkʃən)
noun
another name for mutual assured destruction
 

mutual assured destruction in British English

(ˈmjuːtʃʊəl əˈʃʊəd dɪˈstrʌkʃən)
noun
military, US
mutual deterrence between countries possessing nuclear weapons, based on the capacity of each to inflict major damage on the other in response to a first strike
▶ USAGE The acronym for mutual assured destruction is MAD

Examples of 'mutually assured destruction' in a sentence
mutually assured destruction

At that stage there was no alternative to mutually assured destruction.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
With that formation, there is much less chance of mutually assured destruction.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And, in the final act of this tragedy, both sides lost - mutually assured destruction.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Nuclear deterrence depended on mutually assured destruction.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Dictators threaten mutually assured destruction if they fear they will not get their way.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This was the economic equivalent of mutually assured destruction.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is, though, a policy of mutually assured destruction that will simply reinforce the public's view that 'they're all the same'.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Not because of our mutually assured destruction, but because he'll have to surrender his commercial presidency for the political one.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The concept of mutually assured destruction appears not to have entered his head, perhaps inhibited from doing so by his hair.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
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