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The idea behind MAD is that anything beyond considering their use in a retaliatory capacity should be fundamentally insane, but that depends on all engagement participants being rational actors, which isn't clearly not guaranteed.

At one point the airforce thought nuclear tipped Surface to Air missiles scattered throughout the California coastal foothills were a good idea

You're assuming wrong. It's simply happenstance, just as the Wordle thing with Roe v. Wade.