One thing you’re missing once again is that the development of nukes has so far been a net positive. MAD pretty much excludes the possibility that major powers

One thing you’re missing once again is that the development of nukes has so far been a net positive. MAD pretty much excludes the possibility that major powers will ever be at war with each other again. Potentially hundreds of millions of people got to live their lives in full rather than be mowed down by conventional weapons in an all out war of attrition.