Editing Mutual assured destruction (section)

==== Failure to retaliate ====
* If it was known that a country's leader would not resort to nuclear retaliation, adversaries may be emboldened. [[Edward Teller]], a member of the Manhattan Project, echoed these concerns as early as 1985 when he said that "The MAD policy as a deterrent is totally ineffective if it becomes known that in case of attack, we would not retaliate against the aggressor."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Teller|first=Edward|date=1985|title=Defense as a Deterrent of War|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42762238|journal=Harvard International Review|volume=7|issue=4|pages=11–13|jstor=42762238|issn=0739-1854}}</ref>