On 2 July 2014 18:17, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-07-02 3:30 GMT+02:00 LizR <[email protected]>: > > On 2 July 2014 11:09, spudboy100 via Everything List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> SMad will likely not work with say, an Iranian guv mint, but it worked >>> ok with the Sovs. You fear a Pyrrhic victory, I fear capitulation. >>> >> >> Yes, MAD wouldn't work with a nation of suicide bombers, for example, it >> requires the other side to have a rational desire to stay alive. I suspect >> that covers most world leaders myself but who knows you *may *have a >> point. Assuming you do, then you're basically saying you'd rather the human >> race died on its feet than lived on its knees, a view with which I have >> some sympathy (although having died on its feet there isn't a chance for a >> later slaves' revolt...) >> > > It would certainly not work because MAD is *mutually* assured > destruction... While I can't deny they would be able to ensure some > destruction, they would be the only one to have the "assured destruction" > part in case of a nuclear conflict with the US, they do not have the > necessary weapons power to ensure the US would be destroy, if and when then > will have the bomb, they'll have nothing compared to the stockpile of the > US (unless another nuclear power escalate the thing and the whole world > goes "MAD") > > Yes it would only be MAD if the destruction was assured, so obviously I was only speaking hypothetically, as I assume was spudboy100 at this time (and hopefully long into the future).
Originally I said the reason to notgo all out in a nuclear war was "large areas of the Earth would be made uninhabitable" or something similar. It was spudboy100 who introduced MAD. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
