mutual assured destruction

doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
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mutual assured destruction
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mutual assured destruction

Summary

mutual assured destruction is a military doctrine[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of military_doctrine entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,078 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • mutual assured destruction's image is recorded as Redwing Apache.jpg[3].
  • mutual assured destruction's instance of is recorded as military doctrine[4].
  • mutual assured destruction's Commons category is recorded as Nuclear Deterrence[5].
  • mutual assured destruction's said to be the same as is recorded as balance of terror[6].
  • mutual assured destruction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cg6d[7].
  • mutual assured destruction's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/mutual-assured-destruction[8].
  • mutual assured destruction's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'MAD'}[9].
  • mutual assured destruction's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'DMA'}[10].
  • mutual assured destruction's different from is recorded as Madrid-Barajas Airport[11].
  • mutual assured destruction's different from is recorded as nuclear deterrent[12].
  • mutual assured destruction's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as mutual-assured-destruction[13].
  • mutual assured destruction's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/MutuallyAssuredDestruction[14].
  • mutual assured destruction's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Mutually_assured_destruction[15].
  • mutual assured destruction's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 상호확증파괴[16].
  • mutual assured destruction's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 141511[17].
  • mutual assured destruction's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 相互確証破壊[18].

Why It Matters

mutual assured destruction ranks in the top 10% of military_doctrine entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,078 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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