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Podcast: Three Equals Five
Episode: MAD (Nuclear War and Mutually Assured Destruction)
Description: There’s SAD and then there’s MAD. We’re here to help you settle into Cold War v2.0. Jon, Mike, and Tom talk about a definition of Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD shaping world politics, the United States nuclear deterrent triad of silos and bombers and submarines, fail deadly and dead hand fail-safe launch systems, boomers lurking under the sea surface, the alien greys, Russia’s Satan missile, gathering and safeguarding nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union, proliferation and countries with nuclear weapons, South Africa and Israel joint nuclear weapon development, England carved up most of the worl...