Poontang

A fictional townsite or village in Vietnam, especially during the Vietnam War.

I was stationed just South of Poon-Tang.

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mutually assured destruction

(MAD) The Cold War strategic doctrine which made all-out nuclear war the only possibility for war between the super-power blocs (US & USSR). Like it or not (and who would?), it worked, at least in preventing the use nuclear weapons in war.

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