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Uhm, Pakistan made it clear it would use nukes if it was about to lose badly in a conventional war. I think the last crisis 2001 had a potential to go nuclear, if a war had erupted. http://www.cdi.org/nuclear/ipcrisis.cfm

NATO armies begun to be qualitatively good enough to compensate for the WP's massive superiority in numbers only in the 80's. In the 50's and 60's, purely conventional war would be a total disaster for NATO, which was totally outnumbered and the WP equipment was of comparable quality. As for...

1999 - Czech government vetoes the NATO operation against Yugoslavia (IOT it passed by one vote margin)

Yeah, right, and I am the Pope. Every WP plan we know of was a plan for nuclear blitzkrieg in Western Europe. The plans for the Czechoslovak People's Army were not defensive, despite the first two sentences. 0% realistic. First, Soviets and the WP had about 3 to 1 superiority in men...

It's not a challenge, it's impossible. It's like making water flow upwards :) Without something really, really improbable (like US president going completely insane), it can't happen.

NATO was not in position to attack the USSR/Warsaw Pact. NATO was a defensive alliance and it suffered of conventional inferiority until the late 80's. Any attack on the USSR would have been a suicide, even if the war had been purely convention, which is totally unlikely anyway.

I think we must take 2 things into consideration: 1) Destruction of the nation states -> Major cities would be destroyed and major cities are usually the centers of industry, trade, culture, healthcare, research, politics. I believe that the post-apocalyptic cliché of lawlessness similar...

A British film about a nuclear war, following the desperate attempt of a pregnant girl to survive in the post-apocalyptic world. It's both realistic and very, very depressive (compared to this film, the Day After looks like a weekend picnic), especially to the end, which is just terrible. It...