Europe, II. It is experiencing its most chaotic period since World War II. It is useful to know the details of a tactic that maintains the balance of power these days, when even the possibility of a nuclear bomb is being talked about.
Putin recently put his country’s nuclear powers on alert. Of course, this does not mean that it will activate nuclear bombs, but it is clear as daylight that it is an unsettling move. also “Let anyone who thinks of interfering from the outside know, if you do, you will pay a greater price than anything you’ve ever experienced in your history.” He made a threatening statement.
Putin is a person whose right and left are uncertain. That’s why he fears the possibility of pressing the nuclear button. Theories about what will happen if he succeeds are frequently spoken in the media, but even the bad idea of this possibility is “at least the one that will ensure that it does not happen with a very quick decision or will never happen.” an ancient military doctrine, It is quite effective in keeping the balance of Putin and those like him.
The Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine is a military strategy and national security policy implemented to prevent two or more nuclear-armed parties from completely eliminating each other.
This doctrine states that the threat of using a weapon of the same strength against an enemy who is likely to use powerful weapons prevents the use of these weapons. “Nuclear Deterrence Theory”what is it based on? Thus, neither side dares to attack nor attempt to disarm.
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If you’ve noticed, the English abbreviation for the term, MAD, means “crazy.”
This is a kind of “Nash Equilibrium”, which is one of the most important tools of the famous mathematician John Nash’s Game Theory.
The Nash Equilibrium is a situation where players have certain characteristics. is the name given to strategy choices. Let’s assume that every player makes the same action/choice in a game. If the action chosen for a player is the best action (in terms of payoff) that can be played considering the action chosen by the other players, and this is true for all other players, it can be said that this situation creates a Nash Equilibrium.
Nuclear deterrence emerged during the Cold War and helped prevent the Cold War from escalating.
II. After World War II, the Truman administration was ambivalent about the use of nuclear weapons, choosing them rather than being part of a military arsenal. terrorist weapons he saw as
The US air force initially from communist china He wanted to continue using nuclear weapons against additional threats that may come. The US Eisenhower administration implemented this policy throughout his tenure, increasing its gun stock from 1,000 in 1953 to 18,000 in 1961.
When it was understood that nuclear armament could not be prevented and it was realized that there could be an unimaginable destruction, the parties agreed that MAD was the best way to achieve peace. they reached a consensus. One of the most unsettling pragmatic ideas ever put into practice worked, and the parties were convinced of the irrationality of attacking each other.
But the parties still remained skeptical. Could one of them develop a very effective attack technique and destroy it at such a speed that his enemy could not even respond?
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove (1964) is a black comedy that tackles this topic.
MAD supporters feared that this ability might have been acquired. Things changed when Ronald Reagan became the head of the USA. Reagan to protect his country from a possible nuclear danger. missile defense system decided to establish
There was a lack of missile defense, in part due to the impact of MAD. Even the US’s allies thought it was dangerous and would destabilize the peace brought by MAD. While the US was able to invest in technology at that time, The USSR, on the other hand, was having a hard time keeping up.
This is cited as a reason for Gorbachev’s decision to end the Cold War. With the end of the Cold War, MAD became more of an active policy. turned into a background threatstill continues to make itself felt even in the days we live in.
However, the use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent remains controversial.
Although this doctrine provides an important balance, Putin “never do that” He did what is called: annexing Crimea, starting a war in the Donbas, invading Ukraine. That’s why nobody says “Never resort to nuclear” anymore, instead “WE HOPE THAT never resort to nuclear,” he says.
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