MAD (Nuclear War and Mutually Assured Destruction)

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 world, the Scots rule Great Britain, US troops training Ukrainians, lining up armor along a road is generally not the smartest of moves, shoot and move antitank operations, Fins downing reindeer alcohol and getting feisty with Russia, how we will be shown to be clearly wrong, European Union member countries, the threat to heads of state from those close to them, a rational actor is required for MAD to work, overwhelming force, nuclear launch systems and multiple warheads, nuclear war is like a bad divorce, everyone is an expert, the lack of an existential threat, The Day After, an electromagnetic pulse, goggles for checking out nuclear blasts, Bikini Atoll tests, Backfire bombers, a big flash and that is it, a couple of hits in Japan, China’s nuclear weapons program is generally defensive, natural disasters, Generation X was the last great generation, things moving too fast to react, Putin thought things would be different in Ukraine, hopes and dreams and logistics of warfare, going to the nuclear brink, research rocket launch almost led to full nuclear launch, respect versus support, detente, working with your enemy to prevent world destruction, Henry Kissinger, Europe versus NATO countries, the idiots in Europe fighting each other, the United States getting dragged into WW1 and WW2, Germany going flower child and being energy dependent on Russia, Helsinki Accords, faster and funnier, Spain lost to the United States, the Habsburgs and Stewarts, Mercator map projection, Scotland and Ireland and Belgium, Polish people are in Poland, the Chinese Olympic team is comprised of Chinese, Israel versus the rest of the Middle East, geopolitical relations, we are spoiled in the United States, when some become weak others become strong and dominate the weak, being safer in the cold war, and the balance of power. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834 #MAD #NuclearWar #Fallout #Detente #ColdWar #ICBM #Boomer #B52 #Submarines #Bombers Support the show