No nuclear weapons. Does the Cold War remains cold?

DougM

Donor
You realize the even WITH the possibility of killing everyone on the planet the US and the USSR STILL got into proxy wars and other Sabre rattling contests. So why with no chance of killing everyone and very low chance of rai ther country actually being invaded and occupied would this tendency decrease?
 
Not really. Millions of dead people and a crashed economy and no assurance of victory all add up to a bunch of reasons to make sure a World War Three never happens. The US knows (or at least should be expected to know) that the USSR is operating under a similar paradigm. And in this scenario, since neither of them have nuclear weapons, they will have less motive to drag the other into proxy conflicts, because there will be less need to sap each other's power indirectly. At least in theory.
Based on that logic WW1 and WW2 shouldn’t have been started. Like seriously, the proxy wars had very little to do with nuclear strategy. It was purely just a massive ideological/power struggle on a global stage, and the absence of the atom bomb won’t change that, and both sides will have even less of a reason to back down without the threat of an immediately nation-ending event.
 
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