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Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was a strategy shared between the Soviet Union and United States that analysts widely believed prevented the Cold War from turning into a nuclear war. Its fundamental assumption was that both sides had a sufficient number of protected and deliverable nuclear weapons such that no conceivable counterforce attack, by the other side, could destroy enough weapons to prevent devastating countervalue second strike.