PRESENTATION OUTLINE
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION OR (M.A.D)
Aftermath of the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Atomic bomb explosions over Hiroshima, Japan, 6 August 1945 (left) and over Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945 (right).
Beginning in 1955 the United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) kept one-third of its bombers on alert with crews ready to take off within fifteen minutes and fly to designated targets inside the Soviet Union and destroy them with nuclear bombs in the event of a Soviet attack
