Re: Nato in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:42:31 -0400, Auric Hellman
<adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

It is insane that Armageddon could occur because of regional disputes.

Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy
and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of
nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with
second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation
of both the attacker and the defender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

Putin....raised the bar.