Basically, MAD plus level-headed ... sub captains equals stability. The number of near-misses was vanishingly small. In a sense, nukes were more peaceful - th

Basically, MAD plus level-headed ... sub captains equals stability. The number of near-misses was vanishingly small. In a sense, nukes were more peaceful - the practical effect was to replace large armies with nukes for cost reasons. Using nukes destroys them, so there's a disincentive to actually use them. They're only any good if you don't use them. That's some catch, that Catch-22. The Cold War is oh-so-much not nearly even close to WWI. Bismarck pretty much predicted WWI - down to the Balkan character of the spark that ignited it - not long after he was forced out of power in Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Last_warning_and_prediction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Last_warning_... " According to Albert Ballin, the year before he died Bismarck told him: "One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans".[81] "