WORLD HISTORY

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: -Massive retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.

Detailed explanation-3: -The concept of deterrence can be defined as the use of threats by one party to convince another party to refrain from initiating some course of action. A threat serves as a deterrent to the extent that it convinces its target not to carry out the intended action because of the costs and losses the target would incur.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nuclear deterrence has been at the core of NATO’s mutual security guarantee and collective defence since its inception in 1949.