The Nuclear Deterent

Question 1

What was MAD ?

Answer 1

Mutually Assured Destruction - both superpowers (America and the USSR) theorised that their nuclear weapons made them safer as the enemy would not attack first because they knew if they did , the other would strike back before its bombs had even landed causing both countries to be destroyed.

Question 2

What were the two reasons for the nuclear deterrent ?

Answer 2

The Cuban missile crisis

MAD

Question 3

What was the Tsar?

Answer 3

It was a new bomb that the USSR successfully tested on October 1961 which was four times bigger than any bomb the USA had.