Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation mutually assured destruction
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- noun Moroccan
dirham - initialism
mutually assured destruction - initialism magnetic anomaly detector
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Examples
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God as BFG, basically, or the nuclear option in MAD scenarios; so powerful a “problem-solver” that its use pretty much ends the story by default.
The God Tangent « 2009
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Maybe the real solution lies in MAD, mutually assured destruction, that is.
The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010
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In 1963, Sergio Aragonés published his debut comic in MAD Magazine: "A MAD Look At The US Space Effort," which spoofed the space race craze, while also capturing what would become the artist's trademark style of relating everyday people and common situations through goofy humor.
Sammy Perlmutter: MAD's Great Artist Sergio Aragones Celebrates Five Decades Of Amazing Work Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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In 1963, Sergio Aragonés published his debut comic in MAD Magazine: "A MAD Look At The US Space Effort," which spoofed the space race craze, while also capturing what would become the artist's trademark style of relating everyday people and common situations through goofy humor.
Sammy Perlmutter: MAD's Great Artist Sergio Aragones Celebrates Five Decades Of Amazing Work Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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Sally: Maybe the real solution lies in MAD, mutually assured destruction, that is.
The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010
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In 1963, Sergio Aragonés published his debut comic in MAD Magazine: "A MAD Look At The US Space Effort," which spoofed the space race craze, while also capturing what would become the artist's trademark style of relating everyday people and common situations through goofy humor.
Sammy Perlmutter: MAD's Great Artist Sergio Aragones Celebrates Five Decades Of Amazing Work Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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I once read in MAD Magazine that if you could build an Oriental woman with giant breasts, the world would beat a path to your door.
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In time, we came to understand about the balance of terror that we called MAD, or mutual assured destruction, the idea that the nuclear power could not destroy the other without itself being destroyed.
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Check out this lost remnant of the Disney archives -- an irreverant, unofficial employee send-up of the Haunted Mansion, done in MAD Magazine style.
Boing Boing 2007
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MAD is a first-time winner if I'm not mistaken, and Andy is a multiple winner now.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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