The Scottish Independence thread - Yay or Nay?

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Oberon

And the Soviets, if we hadn't been all in a Mexican stand-off with nukes then things probably wouldn't have been quite so rosy.

As galling as it is to some, I do wonder if we don't have nuclear weapons in general to thank. No Great Power dust-ups since 1945. The only weapon system ever devised that put the glittering bigwigs at the top in the same position of risk as the little guys in the trenches.

Of course, that only works if you value your existence on this planet. Some of these fundamentalist types we have now days sort of stand that dynamic on it's head.