'Jaw jaw better than war war' — lessons from the Cold War

A new documentary series on Netflix, The Turning Point, shows how nuclear weapons have completely changed the nature of war. Since the use of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the world and therefore humanity can be destroyed at the push of a button.

We already knew that, at least for anyone who lived through the Cold War. What may surprise most ...