Mutual assured destruction is a concept in politics.

Mutually assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

Increasing term assurance provides a higher coverage amount over time.

Decreasing term assurance provides a decreasing amount of coverage over time.

Level term assurance provides a fixed amount of coverage for a specified period of time.

She smiled assuringly and told him everything would be okay.