Reply #40: MAD was insane to put it mildly

[Solon]

The best analogy I can come up with is two people, who for whatever reason, decided to have a duel, so one comes up with a .22 pistol and the other a Rocket Launcher, so the one with the .22 immediatly retrieves a Rocket Launcher himself and now the race is on, with both facing each other down with weapons that get increasingly more destructive as time goes on. Pretty soon both have their fingers on nuclear weapons, sitting on the damn things while thowing faces at each other. Setting off one will destroy the other, so it is deadlocked, with both wanting the absolute destruction of the other, but not at the cost of their own life. Sooner or later, a finger will slip, and then the world pays.