re: Does World War III take place in the 50s or 60s if there are no nuclear weapons?

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Did the presence of nuclear weapons and the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction keep the U.S. and Soviets from engaging in a major conflict? Or would cooler heads have prevailed regardless of the presence of nuclear weaponry or not?

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We should have taken Churchill's and Patton's [shortly died afterwards] advice and pre-preemptively attacked the USSR, starting WW3. The world would be a much more peaceful place like:
-No Korean war
-nor Vietnam
-nuclear armed Pakistan, India, China, NK
-more peace in the middle east because of less proxy wars