INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Missile Defense, Cuban Missile Crisis, Mutual Assured Destruction
23 Aug 2017
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The eisenhower administration"s strategic doctrine that soviet-sponsored aggression would be countered with large-scale nuclear retaliation. A condition that exists when nuclear states can survive a first strike with sufficient nuclear forces to retaliate in a second strike and inflict unacceptable damage on their opponent. Because any nuclear strike would result in both opponents" destruction, there is no incentive to initiate a nuclear war. A missile designed to destroy incoming missiles or their warheads before they hit the designated targets. During the cold war, ____ between the united states and soviet. Union referred to cooperation on areas such as arms control, trade, and technology. Henry kissinger, us secretary of state during nixon administration. Helsinki accords, which determined human rights and democracy as a governing principle. Russian for openness, referring to the political policies that followed mikhail gorbachev"s 1985 rise to power in the ussr.
