Do you have a statistics for the number of mated nuke+missile/carriers/gravity-bomb-casing pairs too? Yes, the US did have 18,638 nukes in 1960, but how many of them were in their basic warhead form and in strategic storage in rear areas?
Some assume (and I do agree with them) that so-called "westerns" part (being considered the most politically economically, technologically and industrially advanced parts of the world by others, not just by itself) of the Human global civilization has moved slightly a little further along the...
It is child's play to create believable conflict in dystopias. Dystopias are boring. Let's move on...
It is much more difficult to create believable conflict in (material/economic) utopias (material/economic utopias being what FALC would be). You can have conflict in those setting, even...
Another thing: Britain is going to lose its Empire. No ifs about that. It is too late to federalize it, with the native nationalists already being empowered by the late 1910s. So, what will happen in ITL Europe once the British Empire disintegrates will be fun (Dwarf Fortress style).