mutually assured destruction

基本解释

And so the Mutually Assured Destruction policy of the Cold War…
冷战时期美苏这种互毁式核武攻击策略…
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During the cold war, when the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction helped to keep the peace, a case could be made that building defences against incoming missiles would be destabilising.
在冷战期间，相互保证毁灭原则维护了和平，在那种特殊背景下，建立截击来犯导弹的防御体系反而会使时局不稳。
American policy-makers may utter the mantra that "they need us as much as we need them" and refer ominously to Lawrence Summers's famous phrase about "mutually assured financial destruction."
美国的政策制定者可能会说习惯性地说出“他们需要我们正如我们需要他们一样”，并不祥地参考劳伦斯萨默斯的那句名言“财政上的两败俱伤”。

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