The Myth of Mutually Assured Destruction

This post is not me saying Nuclear Weapons didn't exist or that they don't pose a serious risk of destroying all life on Earth.  Just the opposite.

This is about the myth that the existence of Nuclear Weapons are the only reason the Cold War never went Hot and so therefore it's a good thing Nukes exist because they've prevented another major war.

The whole notion that post 1945 history has been some uniquely peaceful era of human history is itself an absurd western bias of human history.  Europe hasn't gone to war with itself but try telling the Middle East or South East Asia that things have been peaceful.

But mostly what I'm aware of is that The Cold War was not the first Cold War in history.

Rome and Parthia glared at each other across the Euphrates for nearly two centuries before their first full on war with each other.  Yet people think America and Russia needed "Mutually Assured Destruction" to go less then a third of that.

Most people today don't know this but the fact is we attempted to invade Russia right after the Bolsheviks took over during WWI, and we were utterly and decisively defeated.  We were never gonna invade Russia again because we'd already learned that was a futile endeavor.  And Stalinist Russia just wanted to keep to itself, Stalin rejected the World Revolution ideology of Lenin and Trotsky.  So neither side was ever going to go to full scale war with the other regardless of Nukes existing or not.

So no, the real danger caused by the mere existence of Nuclear Weapons is not worth their imaginary benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMHaM_3JhA