Wonderful comment, mainly because it consideres several cords of thought about their development that I've never considered before or seen covered in this speci

Wonderful comment, mainly because it consideres several cords of thought about their development that I've never considered before or seen covered in this specific way. Many people have described the so-called Nuclear Peace that followed the second world war, and which holds to this very day, and while some disagree about its reality, I think it's a very real thing that has been one of the major reasons why no two major nation states have gone into open war since WWII, but the question of timing for nuclear weapons development as a cause for these weapons leading to the underlying psychological causes of the nuclear peace is interesting. I personally do believe the Nuclear Peace is still very present in geopolitics. I can very easily imagine say, China invading the obvious target of eastern Russia, or Russia having launched a broader invasion of eastern Europe instead of just Ukraine were the background threat of nuclear bombs not always looming behind all these potential acts of war between major powers. Even back in the late 40s and early 50's, when Stalin was alive and very much in love with the idea of launching yet another war to conquer even more of Europe, I think he was specifically restrained for the same reason. Just a few examples among many.