The Bipolar World of Nuclear Weapons

The rate at which new countries are added to the nuclear club stays constant and it takes nine years on average to add a nation. In 100 years we've only added 11 more countries. This may seem fairly minor but if we assume that any two belligerents could start World War 3 then we would have 55 potential starting points for World War 3 rather than the one starting point during the Cold War. For historical arsonists, this is a concept I'm borrowing from Dan Carlin of the podcast hardcore history. It's a concept of the historical arsonist. These are people like Hitler, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, etc.