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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 798637" data-attributes="member: 14668">The one thing people overlook about the concept of "mutually assured destruction".....is that it worked. As awful as nuclear weapons are, one could make a valid case that they have saved far more lives over the last 65 years than they took at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Imagine what would have happened during the time period of the Cold War if nuclear weapons had not been invented. There almost certainly would have been a "hot" war between the Soviet Union and the USA and our NATO allies....and given the Soviet's 3 to 1 advantage in manpower and material, it is a war we could not have won. The only reason that Western Europe was able to remain free and democratic is due to the presence of the American "nuclear umbrella".</blockquote>