How to do Mutual Assured Destruction in the 2020s

MAD kept us alive for the last 70 years and it might still work

Photo by Dasha Urvachova on Unsplash

I grew up learning to duck and cover- a siren goes off, you crawl under your desk and cover the back of your neck with your clasped hands.

Even at seven or eight we knew this was total bullshit. If a bomb back then hit my city, we were toast, almost…