It's kind of like our nuclear date-on strategy of mutually assured destruction.

这有些像一种‘相互确保摧毁’的核战略。

However, the paper omitted to mention the concept of M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction.

但该报没有提及相互保证毁灭（M.A.D.）的概念。

This Khrushchev did, no doubt saving the world yet again from a third world war complete with mutually assured destruction.

赫鲁晓夫照做了，无疑也挽救了世界，避免发起第三次世界大战造成世界毁灭。

Right, mutual assured destruction kept the Cold War relatively stable, without that, we might not be here now.

CA：是的， 相互保证的毁灭让冷战相对稳定，没有它，我们现在可能不会在这里。

A generation of kids grew up with the concept of mutually assured destruction, or MAD, the knowledge that the entire world could be destroyed in mere hours.

那一代人从小就知道，保证共同毁灭，这个概念，知道整个世界可以在数小时内遭遇毁灭。

I was nervous back then, but had I known how close the world had actually come to mutually assured destruction when I was an infant, I would have been terrified.

那时候我非常紧张，我要是知道自己是个婴儿的时候，世界就差点遭到相互保证毁灭的危险，估计我得吓坏了。

The logic of deterrence, and later of mutually assured destruction—which presumes that war between nuclear-armed nations is impossible, because the mutual annihilation ensures that neither side could win—applies only to rational actors.

核威慑逻辑以及同生共亡的理论（该理论持有者认为核武器国家间是不会有战争的，因为相互之间的灭亡会使任何一方都无法赢得战争）只适用于理性行为者。

And it's nice that proximity has forced his parents through the era of mutually assured destruction to now, where they have one Christmas instead of two.

令人高兴的是， 邻近迫使他的父母度过了互相毁灭的时代，直到现在，他们只度过了一个圣诞节， 而不是两个。

Eventually the nuclear arsenals were so big that the U.S. and USSR agreed on a strategy appropriately called MAD, which stood for " mutually assured destruction." Thanks Thought Bubble.

最终，核武库如此之大，以至于美国和苏联同意了一项被恰当地称为 MAD 的战略，它代表“相互确保毁灭”。感谢思想泡泡。