Kilgore said:Well with Anti missile systems getting more advanced as time goes on, i think Nuclear weapons will become less of a threat for western powers. Nuclear missiles have kept the world stable during the Cold War, but with a totally changed world... Anything could happen with nuclear weapons.
Kilgore said:It was nuclear weapons that kept the cuban crisis from going to a full blown war really. Both nations didn't wish to be obliterated into nuclear wastelands. Then again nuclear weapons started the crisis.
ISLANDFOX said:Kilgore said:It was nuclear weapons that kept the cuban crisis from going to a full blown war really. Both nations didn't wish to be obliterated into nuclear wastelands. Then again nuclear weapons started the crisis.
That's the point many people seem to forgetting... The Cold War wouldn't have turned "hot" with the absence of nuclear weapons, it just wouldn't been Cold in the first place. Nukes were the only reason MAD was taken into account.