MAD
Doomsday prevents doomsday
MAD as an acronym most often refers to Mutual Assured Destruction, the Cold War doctrine holding that nuclear war was deterred because both superpowers would be annihilated.
MAD is also the American humor magazine founded in 1952, known for satirizing popular culture and politics: I grew up reading MAD.
In medicine, MAD can stand for multiple conditions including major affective disorder. (Lowercase mad means angry or insane.)
Mockery exposing vice
- parodySatirical imitation
- humor magazinePeriodical publishing comedic content
- comicFunny performer or publication
- lampoonHarsh public mockery
spoof · caricature · cartoon · irreverent
satire
Mockery exposing vice
- parodySatirical imitation
- humor magazinePeriodical publishing comedic content
- comicFunny performer or publication
lampoon · spoof · caricature · cartoon · irreverent
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactics, tactic, tactical
- Airport CodesLAX, JFK, DFW, SFO, MIA
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Nuclearnuclear reactor, atomic bomb, nuclear energy, atomic bombs, uranium
- nuclear waratomic bomb, nuclear holocaust, nuclear arsenal, hydrogen bomb, ICBM
- arms controlarms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, arms deals, arms reduction
MADsane
Mentally healthy, clearheaded
rational · lucid · sensible · reasonable · stable
MADdisarmament
Reducing or eliminating weapons
nuclear disarmament · denuclearization · arms reduction · détente · nonproliferation
- go madBecome insane
- going madBecoming mentally unhinged
- madly in loveIntensely romantically obsessed
- mad scientistDeranged researcher archetype
- gone madLost one's mind
- drive someone madAnnoy to distraction
madness, madly, madman, maddening, madhouse, maddened, madwoman, madder, maddest