MAD

During the Cold War, the time period where the United States and the Soviet Union were against each other in many differet political and military aspects. One of the most prominent and infamous parts of the Cold War was the nuclear arms race. Both sides of the war were fighting each other to see who could build the most nuclear bombs and the most powerful bombs in order to establish protection and supremacy. One important feature to come out of the nuclear arms race was Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD. The concept of MAD was very simple: both sides, the Soviet Union and the USA, had the military capacity to be able to fully destroy the other and cause complete destruction of each other. This strategy was used as a form of deterrence as a way to stop the use of any nuclear weapons.
In my opinion, MAD is a bad idea because it allows each side to keep building up their weapons supply to keep up with each other and also encourages other nations to join in because they also want protection. By building up more and more weapons that have the capacity to destroy the entire world, it puts everyone at a huge risk that may not actually be worth it in the end.