"Abe Sokolov" abesokolov@hotmail.com writes:
Ray wrote:
"In the cold war era when both sides were ponting nuclear missiles at the other it was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) :-)"
Yes, and didnt it work?
No it didn't work. There was no nuclear war, but there were plenty of fair sizable non-nuclear wars -- the US in Vietnam and the Russians in Afghanistan spring to mind -- and the number of civilian casualties (sorry, "collateral damage") runs into millions.