Preventing Nuclear War
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Nuclear Deterrents Worked During Cold War Conflicts
During the cold war, since the invention of nuclear weapons in the id 19 forties, have two nuclear armed powers ever fought a conventional war against each other where they both refrained from using nuks during the cold war? I mean, the soviet union and the us. Avoided, or tried to avoid, headon confrontations,. In nown that, a lot of proxy wars were fought. The situation where it got the tensest was obviously in the cuban missile crisis of 19 62. And this, this became very tense, and it didn't become a conventional conflict, but it could have easily.
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