Why don't people talk about how shitty M.A.D.

>>3167144
Didn't it only happen once?

But it never did end. So it worked.
Doesn't seem that shitty to me.

>>3167156
Yes and no. Fiercely opposed peoples hiding behind opposing political fronts, projecting their own fears onto their opponents actions, while committing most of this actions themselves caused a number of flare ups.

Most of the main incidents never resulted in anything more than heightened alert levels, but the threat was still there.

You are talking about the b59 arkhipov incident. That may be the closest we ever got, but remember that tensions were so high because of the Cuban missile crisis.

>>3167144
Think about it this way: Time Travel is impossible.

How do I know this? Well, naturally our future selves would at least TRY to contact us in some form.

Just like time travel, since nuclear war hasn't happened then MAD *does* work. Otherwise we'd all have been turned to ash in the 60s

>>3167144
MAD is just part of the natural progression of warfare

>>3167156
>Didn't it only happen once?
It never happened, it's never happened. Every supposed time we are apparently at the brink, all you see is all world leaders working to remove the chance of it happening. None of them would have pushed the button, they were all wholly against it, because you know, they weren't fucking retarded.