You could've made the similar argument during the Cold War. Did that make the Cold War a safe time, just because everyone involved had logical reasons not to start a nuclear exchange?
I'd argue it made it a safer time, because nukes kept the Cold War a cold war. Without them, a hot war would have erupted at some point. Yeah, people lived in fear, but you didn't have hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of Americans die in a direct war with the USSR.
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