M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Destruction (Modern Plays)

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For those who may not know, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) in the doctrine between two nuclear powers which, roughly, means that "if you nuke me, I'll nuke you right back, and no one will win".

Each short play explores a distinct facet of brother and sisterhood, from fights over who caused mom and dad to split ( 1985 - I'm Pretty Sure This Is Your Fault) to daring escape plots that only two sisters could pull off ( 1922 - Very Very Cold Feet). TL;DR, it depends if you're in it for the strategic appear, or do you just want to see shit blow up and let some debris fly. Should a nuclear war break out, it is believed that the result would be the collapse of human civilization, as much or all of the planet becomes unsuitable for life, cities are erased and technology becomes unusable. In the scene with Anabelle Xiong and Rebekah Boucher, the sisters had to share a room, and it caused the initial problem in the scene. By the 1960s, the concept of mutually assured destruction (hereafter referred to as MAD) was crystallized.I begin to believe in only one civilizing influence – the discovery one of these days, of a destructive agent so terrible that War shall mean annihilation, and men’s fears shall force them to keep the peace. Once a player decides to attack, they need to consider a lot of things, such as “Will I be counter-attacked? If one side can cause a degree of destruction which would prevent a counterattack, the concept of MAD is not applicable. It is a term being used during the Cold War as a game theory that if both country could guarantee to destroy the other one , they wouldn’t actually do it because of the counter-attack.

While world peace is certainly a long way off, this nuclear fleet provides a semblance of global stability. Before the show started and during intermission, there were family photos on a slideshow on a projector. You know, thousands of years ago we had psychotics and we had religious fanatics and we had megalomaniacs. Or when companies obtain a large patent portfolio but don’t pursue legal action against competitors with large patent portfolios.But it’s also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. In any case, what would human life be without any economic or political structure or any of the other important concepts we take for granted? Whether the MAD exchanges between Tara and her brother Julien was over social media, escalating Instagram as a tool of mutually assured destruction; Joe’s brutal honesty about Sam’s embarrassing singing as an American Idol contestant dressed as a clown; the bad behavior of siblings Chad and Rachel causing their parents’ divorce; or even the secrets of fickle bride Virginia wiggling her way out of her upcoming nuptials by asking her sister, Evelyn, to lie, the players delivered convincing and comic portrayals that entertained.

As of 2016, 174,000 survivors of the bombing are still alive, living with the physical, psychological, and social consequences.Nukes in Supreme Commander also have nice destructible power, although thay take some setting up before you can let rip. No matter the decade, audiences will see themselves in these ten distinct shorts about the undeniable bond between siblings through the ages. The US kept a fleet of airplanes airborne non-stop, ready to drop nuclear bombs on the USSR at a moment’s’ notice, should they strike first.