There are more players now but I don't think the cold war Soviets were as stable as you're arguing here. We've had mad men with nuke since we've had nukes. The

There are more players now but I don't think the cold war Soviets were as stable as you're arguing here. We've had mad men with nuke since we've had nukes. The more time we spend in that situation the higher the chances someone uses them but I think we're far safer now than times such as the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviets had their nukes on a dead man switch. That was insane and could have killed billions accidentally.