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To: TimF who wrote (528784)11/13/2009 2:38:12 PM
From: HPilot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576601
 
(in Korea we did fight China if you consider them a major power at that time, and there where some Soviet pilots in combat against Americans, but it wasn't a USSR/US war, and China wasn't a nuclear power until the 60s).

China was not a major power, nor had nukes at the time. We could have whipped them, but we were too war weary.



To: TimF who wrote (528784)11/13/2009 3:05:52 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1576601
 
Since then the major powers have mostly refrained from war against each other

They have been proxy wars. The Spanish Civil War was an example of a proxy war between the two big ones.



To: TimF who wrote (528784)11/13/2009 6:20:22 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576601
 
"OTOH that doesn't mean nuclear proliferation is generally a good thing, as more and more countries get nukes, and particularly as some of the more extreme countries get them, the risk of their use goes up"

An analogy of that thought would be the increasing number of guns in the US....