Bernard Lewis: "Filosofi Perang Dingin dari Mutual Assured Destruction...

"Filosofi Perang Dingin dari Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), yang mencegah bekas Uni Soviet dan Amerika Serikat menggunakan senjata nuklir yang telah mereka targetkan satu sama lain, tidak akan berlaku untuk Iran milik Presiden Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Baginya (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction bukan pencegah, itu bujukan."

--- Bernard Lewis

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The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.