mutually assured destruction

基本解釋

And so the Mutually Assured Destruction policy of the Cold War…
冷戰(zhàn)時期美蘇這種互毀式核武攻擊策略…
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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.
在冷戰(zhàn)期間，相互保證毀滅原則維護了和平，在那種特殊背景下，建立截擊來犯導彈的防御體系反而會使時局不穩(wěn)。
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."
美國的政策制定者可能會說習慣性地說出“他們需要我們正如我們需要他們一樣”，并不祥地參考勞倫斯薩默斯的那句名言“財政上的兩敗俱傷”。

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