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Without nuclear weapons, the Cold War would not be as intense of a time period. Nuclear weapons were a benefit to the United States in that they saved thousands of soldiers that would have died in a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands. They didn't really save us from World War III, they almost caused it. Look at the Cuban Missle Crisis. Well, if you do look at the missle crisis in Cuba, there can be a case made that nukes kept us out of wwiii. Everyone on both sides knew the result of a war over those missles and that caution and concern prevented an escalation.

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