POLS 2940 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle, Total War, X Article

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Sandra Withworth

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Military method that emerged during the cold war. course of action to follow in a particular scenario. Requires a lot of training so those involved can do it without thinking about it (hesitating) should they need to do it for real): significance: basis for most military decisions during the cold war period. Doesn"t work for terrorist threats: mad, definition: mutually assured destruction. refers to all out nuclear war between 2 nations equally capable of destroying each other, significance: deterrence. Hopefully prevents nuclear attacks because the nation struck upon would still have enough left to inflict the same amount of damage on the striking nation: example: kept the u. s. and u. s. s. r. from launching nuclear attacks, problem solving theory, definition: uses existing institutions and relationships as the base for solving level. Cox"s theory: significance: opposite of critical theory (also cox"s theory), which would look at how the world came to arrive at its current state, security council, definition: branch of the un.