Reply to post: Without MAD we would have had several other World Wars

RIP Stanislav Petrov: Russian colonel who saved world from all-out nuclear war

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Without MAD we would have had several other World Wars

We live in a Continent twice devastated by World Wars. Since the apparition of nuclear weapons, Western Europe knows a period of peace which didn't happen since the fall of the Roman Empire. So thank you MAD for avoiding us to have to fix bayonets to fight the other line.

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