https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#Dr._Strangelov...
If a film director, albeit a very gifted one, could already see in 1964 how absurd that line of reasoning really was, no hindsight was really necessary.
If a film director, albeit a very gifted one, could already see in 1964 how absurd that line of reasoning really was, no hindsight was really necessary.
Intellectuals of the time loved to make fun of and satirize MAD. But the fact is it worked.
'It worked' only in the sense that cooler heads prevailed to prevent accidental holocaust[0] and that humanity was incredibly lucky[1]. That this occurred is more than a minor miracle.
[0] https://www.wjperryproject.org/books [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00963402156111...
At which they failed, but perhaps they spread enough fear of nuclear war to make MAD work better, which certainly wasn't the plan but is a kind of win on its own.