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Let me take India as an example. In the two decades preceding India's first nuclear test in 1974, India fought 4 major wars (3 with Pakistan and 1 with China) and a couple of smaller wars (with Portugal and China). In the 4 decades post India's nuclear weapon acquisition, there has been no major wars and only one major 1 border conflict. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis...
1. The Mutually Assured Destruction nature of nuclear weapons forces major powers to rethink wars. Even at the height of Cold War, US & USSR didn't have a major flashpoint and that could have certainly been the case without the Nuclear MAD. Without nuclear weapons, we would have already had a WW3 with a high certainty.
The prospect of a nuclear war and a complete destruction aftermath forced the major powers to rethink war.
2. The nuclear weapons also provide an insurance and a sense of confidence to major powers. In the earlier days these major powers used to have buffer states, client states and colonies to provide as much protection as possible to their key assets. Now, these are not considered as important.
Before the arrival of nuclear weapons, the major powers were living in the fear they were going to be attacked & tried to preempt those attacks. Now, with the safety of a nuclear umbrella, Japan & Europe are able to focus almost entirely on their economies since 1950s. Since obtaining nuclear status China has been able to mend its terrible relationships with US & USSR and India is not as testy as it used to be in the 1960s. The major powers focus more on economic issues than political/sovereignty issues.
3. Without the comfort of nuclear weapons countries might have been developing more insidious weapons such as chemical, biological & other equally ghastly weapons but with far less protections (in terms of proliferation and safety controls). Now, world has moved into stronger regulations on these type of weapons.
How would have world been different if nuclear weapons were never developed ? - Quora
P.S what will be the current geo political stucture if there were no nuclear weapons starting from second world war(Hiroshima and nagasaki)?
1. The Mutually Assured Destruction nature of nuclear weapons forces major powers to rethink wars. Even at the height of Cold War, US & USSR didn't have a major flashpoint and that could have certainly been the case without the Nuclear MAD. Without nuclear weapons, we would have already had a WW3 with a high certainty.
The prospect of a nuclear war and a complete destruction aftermath forced the major powers to rethink war.
2. The nuclear weapons also provide an insurance and a sense of confidence to major powers. In the earlier days these major powers used to have buffer states, client states and colonies to provide as much protection as possible to their key assets. Now, these are not considered as important.
Before the arrival of nuclear weapons, the major powers were living in the fear they were going to be attacked & tried to preempt those attacks. Now, with the safety of a nuclear umbrella, Japan & Europe are able to focus almost entirely on their economies since 1950s. Since obtaining nuclear status China has been able to mend its terrible relationships with US & USSR and India is not as testy as it used to be in the 1960s. The major powers focus more on economic issues than political/sovereignty issues.
3. Without the comfort of nuclear weapons countries might have been developing more insidious weapons such as chemical, biological & other equally ghastly weapons but with far less protections (in terms of proliferation and safety controls). Now, world has moved into stronger regulations on these type of weapons.
How would have world been different if nuclear weapons were never developed ? - Quora
P.S what will be the current geo political stucture if there were no nuclear weapons starting from second world war(Hiroshima and nagasaki)?
