65th anniversary of JV day

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

Actually because of nuclear weapons we endured a 45 year period known as the Cold War. As a result several accidents almost wiped mankind from the face of the Earth.

Almost perhaps. But without them it would have certainly meant war. I give you WWI as an example. An arch-duke assasinated by an anarchistic Serbian gave us WWI. If Nukes existed do you think one man would cause a world war? As counter point JFK was assasinated by one Soviet expatriot. No war.