The fear of MAD was present with the USA and the Soviet Union. This fear spurred the production of nuclear weapons on both sides in what was called, an "Arms Race". Both powers spent massive amounts of time and money, in a competition to hopefully become the greater threat.
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To limit the control of government
and advertisers, from inception, the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was funded by
license fees levied on receivers, and its governance was given over to a
nonprofit corporation. The BBC was originally built using the social
responsibility model, which posits that broadcasting was a public trust.
That the government couldn't rise taxes without the consent of the people
It was a push by Mao Zedong to change China from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to a modern, industrial society. In just 5 years.
