ToxicSlurpee posted:

Which is basically the reason it's pretty unlikely to happen, even though the world came close a few times. One simple fact of war is that you fight because you think you can win. Nobody starts a war they think they're going to lose or fights one they know they can't gain anything from. If a nuclear war happens everybody loses. To be honest I think that's a major reason why WWIII hasn't happened and why stuff has been a lot more calm overall since WWII. People are looking at the aftermath of the bomb dropping and thinking "you know, we have tens of thousands of these in the world...we should probably not kick of global conflicts anymore." Far as I can tell nobody even has their fingers on the buttons anymore.