[treebeard901]

Let's assume a nuclear exchange happens at some point during a war. There is a very high chance that this will cause an escalation leading to a nuclear apocalypse.

Since this result is presumably inevitable at increasing frequency, it's more like nukes prevented another major world war and stole a form of peace from the future, temporarily. That peace debt might be repaid with the end of everything.

[KronisLV]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls

[nehal3m]

Funny how the unintentional close calls become more sparse with time. I wonder if that’s because humanity got better at dealing with the responsibility or because the oopsies haven’t been declassified yet.

[testaccount28]

let's assume the trees rise up and set fire to the ionosphere.

[ares623]

well whatever society is left will definitely be "peaceful" for at least a couple of decades.