Nuclear Weapons Increased Proxy Conflict

In some ways, we could even argue that nuclear weapons increased proxy conflict. Because what they did was they made it so that the united states and the soviet union wouldn't actually do it out head, head to head. The us. Put lots of constraints on its own forces. So because the chinese played coy, the us. Limited its own ability to strike inside china. It also constrained the tiwanese, the nationalists and tiwan who thought about making a move on southern china at the time.