Nuclear Threat – The Factor that Lessened the Likelihood of Conflict Escalation during the Cold War

The nuclear weapon, the “ambassador” of peace, is one of the strangest ideas ever uttered. Despite the obvious nonsense, this concept can be considered a great truth. Blinded by concerns to find the most effective method of winning the bipolar confrontation, the two superpowers of the 20th century, the USA and the USSR, undertook the most extreme and most expensive experiments to put them at an advantage. After defusing the tension of the situation created as a result of the deployment of nuclear missiles on the territory of Turkey and Cuba, the two superpowers engaged in an extensive process of disarmament, which also involved representatives of the academic environment, who expressed their positions and offered solutions to the problems about which the two superpowers continued to have reservations.