The Iranian nuclear threat is madder than MAD

When I was a Political Science major at Columbia in the mid-70's, I had a professor named Warner Schilling who taught us that the US-Soviet nuclear standoff of the 70's was based on a concept called MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction. The theory behind it was that the leaders of both the United States and the Soviet Union were rational actors, and since each of them could potentially absorb a