[freewilly1040]

That’s one read on history. Another is that the world has been tremendously lucky to not have suffered a nuclear holocaust since WWII. Many powerful people have done everything they could to advocate for nuclear bombings in the past 60 years, and we’ve had some extremely close calls with near accidental launches.

[fooker]

You are right. It might be too soon to definitively say which take is correct. It might be the case that a disaster (natural, economic, alien invasion, etc) might spark yet another world war.

[grkvlt]

I think the thing that saved the world was Stalin's stroke, if he had held onto power for longer he had the right kind of volatile personality to go 'fuck it' and start something..