POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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The Domino Theory
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Nuclear Proliferation
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Containment Policy
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Detailed explanation-1: -mutual assured destruction, principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated.
Detailed explanation-2: -As such, historians refer to the nuclear arms race of the Cold War as an example of Mutual Assured Destruction since it was clear to both the United States and the Soviet Union that if either attacked the other, then it would ultimately lead to total destruction for both.
Detailed explanation-3: -The “nuclear umbrella” is a guarantee by a nuclear weapons state to defend a non-nuclear allied state. The context is usually the security alliances of the United States with Japan, South Korea, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (much of Europe, Turkey, Canada).