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At present, the United States cannot physically prevent the Soviet Union from virtually destroying it. Instead of defending its homeland against nuclear attacks, the United States achieves its security by deterring these Soviet attacks. The United States maintains a redundant assured destruction capability, insuring its ability to inflict extremely high levels of damage on the Soviet Union even following a full-scale attack against U.S. forces.¹ Since the Soviet Union now maintains a similar capability, the superpowers live in MAD.
This chapter analyzes the desirability of a world in which both superpowers have perfect or “near-perfect” strategic defenses—that is, systems