<story><title>Can men live without war? (1956)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/56feb/5602bush.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhelz</author><text>Fascinating article...written not that long after it looked like men or anybody else could never live &lt;i&gt;with&lt;/i&gt; war again.&lt;p&gt;But, those fretting about the necessity of war need not have worried, as subsequent events proved.   War between nuclear powers doesn&amp;#x27;t happen any more, but instead we&amp;#x27;ve had endless proxy wars.  Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>openasocket</author><text>We’ve had at least one war between nuclear powers off the top of my head. The Kargil war of 1999 between India and Pakistan, I believe both sides had nuclear weapons deployed at the time.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: also the Sino-soviet war of 1969</text></comment>
<story><title>Can men live without war? (1956)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/56feb/5602bush.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhelz</author><text>Fascinating article...written not that long after it looked like men or anybody else could never live &lt;i&gt;with&lt;/i&gt; war again.&lt;p&gt;But, those fretting about the necessity of war need not have worried, as subsequent events proved.   War between nuclear powers doesn&amp;#x27;t happen any more, but instead we&amp;#x27;ve had endless proxy wars.  Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkpack</author><text>&amp;gt; War between nuclear powers doesn&amp;#x27;t happen any more&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;#x27;t happen yet, but there are no is reasons for nuclear war to be avoided indefinitely.</text></comment>