On 2 July 2014 18:17, Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-07-02 3:30 GMT+02:00 LizR <lizj...@gmail.com>: > > On 2 July 2014 11:09, spudboy100 via Everything List < >> everything-list@googlegroups.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
