Nuclear War… Why We Should Be Thinking About It Now
Commentary
Almost all of us living today have become conditioned to believe that nuclear war will not occur due to the concept of mutually assured destruction or MAD.
MAD, put simply, is the guarantee that one country will not use nuclear weapons against another country due to immediate nuclear retaliation and the destruction of both. Not to mention the nuclear winter that would occur and the annihilation of the human population. But what if MAD is obsolete and is no longer protecting us from nuclear war? I believe that to be true, but what does that mean to you and me?…