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More than four decades have passed since the first (and so far fortunately the only) nuclear explosions used in combat destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over the years humanity has, in a manner of speaking, become accustomed to nuclear weapons and they are viewed by some as a peace-keeping factor. The fact that no third world war has broken out in those four decades despite the presence of nuclear arms is now sometimes considered as the avoidance of a third world war due to this type of armament.
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Goldanskii, V.I. (1991). A Nuclear Test Ban: A Soviet Scientist’s Viewpoint. In: Carlton, D., Schaerf, C. (eds) The Arms Race in an Era of Negotiations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11967-7_9
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