> But the reality is that it was only avoided for a while, and will never be solved so long as nuclear stockpiles are maintained. That doesn't solve anything e

> But the reality is that it was only avoided for a while, and will never be solved so long as nuclear stockpiles are maintained. That doesn't solve anything either, countries could just start building nuclear weapons "in secret" at any time. What are you going to do about it? You can have sanctions, but those didn't stop NK or Iran. Let's say that nuclear weapons didn't exist, what about biological and chemical weapons? What about endless trench warfare? The real problem is war, not the means to it. It's conceivable that nuclear weapons prevented many wars, in a "high risk, high reward" type of situation.