In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, John Foster Dulles, secretary of state declares his policy of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) against the Soviet Union: “[T]here is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defenses must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.”
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References:
James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 205, 549(n156)
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