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How to avoid a nuclear war

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The Cold War Was Peaceful Because of Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons made it less likely that a direct war would break out between the two super powers. The more states have nuclear weapons, the more likely you'll have some sort of miscalculation or avertent war,. So i don't think kenneth walts stake was particularly convincing. But here's the real tragedy here. Although super powers avoided direct combat, they still fought their proxy wars. In those proxy wars in the so called third world, from vetnam to afghanistan, africa tolatin america to the middle east. Those proxy wars cost millions of lit of the course of the cold war. To see that the cold war was peaceful because of lucl

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