In the Cold War the nuclear-missile standoff between the U.S. and USSR led to gargantuan stockpiles of another sort under a security doctrine known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
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Amid the standoff, Japan is testing its own missile-launch-monitoring aircraft.
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The standoff with the Soviet Union in October 1962, a fight that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, ended without war, which gave the market license to rise again.